PSYC 2018H Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Headphones, Consistency
18 Nov 2016
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Research goals is to describe, predict and explain. These can be classified as: basic vs. Applied research: research in psychology concerns describing, predicting and explaining the fundamental principles of behaviour and mental processes, known as basic research. Topics such as perception, learning, memory and cognition etc. E. g. , earphones with two different messages, having to listen to one. Designed to discover and better understand the basic properties of something (e. g. , attention in earphone example: applied research has direct and immediate relevance to the solution of real-world problems. Even though it has yielded important knowledge about. Aronson made a distinction between mundane realism and experimental realism. Mundane realism is how closely a study mirrors real life experiences. Experimental realism concerns how much a research study has an impact on the subjects, which forces them to take the matter more seriously. Aronson says it is experimental realism that counts if participants are involved in a study and take in.
