Psychology 2800E Midterm: Research methods exam 1 review

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2800E
• Professor: Patrick Brown

Document Summary

Meant to explain behaviours already known and make predictions of new ones. Defines terms, suggests new experiments: be careful how we explain things to the layperson. But, some virtues can lead to bad actions. Virtue ethics cannot provide guidance unless we have a complete list of all virtues. If something is impossible in principle, nothing could cause it to happen. If something is impossible in practice, some obstruction is preventing it from happening. Look for author, see if they are cited and well known and if they are biased. See how current it is and if it is verifiable: some search engines sell space to advertisers, cars, credible: author listed etc. Gell-man effect: expert notes that articles in their field have lots of errors but reads an article from another field and believes it: accuracy: timeliness, comprehensive, no bias, reasonableness: fair, objective, moderate, consistent, support. White: non-empirical methods: authority and logic, authority: believe something because important person told us.