SY280 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: External Validity, Null Hypothesis, Random Assignment

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P affirms the importance of following the natural sciences (1. Only phen confirmed by the senses can be accepted as knowledge 2. A key purpose of theory is to generate hypothesis that can be tested and allow for explanations 3. Knowledge can be arrived at through induction 4. Science must be conducted in a way that is value free- objectivity/ intersubjectivity 5. I maintains that it is the role of researchers to grasp the subjective meaning of ppl"s actions is interested in. Only thing you can recognize are experiences through senses. You have a theory, go out and test it and then observe and through deriving facts you"re able to create laws. Theory- explanation of observed regularities or patterns. There are components of theory(1. definitions, 2. descriptions of the phenomena of interest, and 3. relational statements (either deterministic- two variables go together all the time) or probabilistic (two variables go together w some degree of regularity)