PSY 300 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Institutional Review Board, Golden Rule, Pseudoscience

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7 Jun 2018
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PSY 300 Buchanan
Exam #1 Study Guide
Book
Chapters 1-4 + (pp.487-521)
Reie Morling’s Voaulary Canas
Practice Questions at the end of each Chapter
Lecture
The Basics of Research
Sources of Information (Library Research Guide)
Psychology is a Way of Thinking
Three Claims, Four Validities: Interrogation Tools
o Types of claims/research goals
Ethical Guidelines for Psychology Research
Topic Overview
A good experiment (slide on Canvas)
o Random assignment, control other factors, measure differences in outcome
Science
o What is it?
o Why do we care?
6 Different ways of knowing (other than science)
Why Psychology must be a science
o Research vs. your experience
o Seeing is not elieing, Sayed y a good story, Do not think aout hat e don’t see,
Biased by motivation
Pseudoscience
Types of research
o Basic vs. Applied
Hypothesis
Variables
o Independent vs. Dependent
Independent variable vs. levels of an independent variable
o Manipulated vs. Measured
o Definitions
Construct, Conceptual, Operational
o Types
Self-report, Behavioral, Physical
Direct, Observational, Indirect
o Categorical vs. Continuous
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