PSYC 2360 Chapter 2: Chapter 2 Notes

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2360
• Professor: Naseem Al- Aidroos

Document Summary

Getting ideas y many behavioural research scientists develop their research programs around their concerns with human problems. Using existing research y use existing research to generate new ideas tends to advance science more rapidly because it contributes to the accumulation of a unified and integrated body of knowledge. Finding limiting conditions y goal of most research is to expand on or improve existing research y useful strategy for developing research ideas is to consider the potential limiting conditions of previous research: ex. Explaining conflicting findings y another strategy is to attempt to explain conflicting findings in a research area. Doing a literature search y prevents duplication of previous research y essential because you can avoid problems others had before you. Laws: principles that are so general as to apply to all situations y laws are such general principles and are considered so only because their validity has already been well established, they are rarely directed to scientific test.