PSY 290A Final: Final Study Guide
14 Sep 2016
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Final exam study guide: explain what it means to reason empirically. Producers of information: create experiments and find answers. The skills you acquire by conducting research can teach you how psychological scientists ask questions and how they think about their discipline. Consumers of information: develop the ability to read about the research with curiosity to understand it, learn from it, and ask appropriate questions about it. Understanding research methods enables you to ask the appropriate questions, so you can assess the information correctly. Could be crucial to your future career as pretty much any psychology profession requires knowing the research behind evidence-based treatments, or therapies that are supported by research. (p. 6: describe five processes that shape psychological science. Research questions, which lead to an appropriate (cid:0) In the context of the design, researchers formulate (cid:0) Data, which feed back into the cycle (cid:0) (cid:0) (cid:0) Nonsupporting data lead to revised theories or improved research design (cid:0) (cid:0)
