PSY 300 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Institutional Review Board, Golden Rule, Pseudoscience
PSY 300 Buchanan
Exam #1 Study Guide
Book
• Chapters 1-4 + (pp.487-521)
• Reie Morling’s Voaulary Canas
• 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 elieing, Sayed y a good story, Do not think aout 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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