PSYC 203 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Consistency

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 203
• Professor: Daryl Wilson

Document Summary

Psyc 203: developing ideas for research in psychology. Basic research: research that concerns describing, predicting, and explaining the fundamental principles of behaviour and mental processes. E. g. , studying the cognitive process of attention. Applied research: has direct and immediate relevance to the solution of real-world problems. E. g. , studying the cognitive process of attention while driving including the use of a cell phone. Laboratory research: occurs inside a controlled environment (a lab); allows the researchers to have greater control, condition can be placed more precisely, and participants can be selected and organized systematically. Mundane realism: refers to how closely a study mirrors real-life experiences. Experimental realism: concerns the extent to which a research study has an. Impact on the subjects, forces them to take matters seriously, and involves them in the procedures . Field research: occurs in an environment that more closely matches the situations we encounter in daily living; **some researchers use a combination of both **