PSYCH101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Convenience Sampling, Scientific Literacy, Falsifiability
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Know the key terminology related to the principles of scienti c research. Understand the ve characteristics of quality scienti c research. Understand how biases might in uence the outcome of a study. Analyze whether anecdotes, authority gures, and common sense are reliably truthful sources of information. Principles of scienti c research objectivity: assumes that certain facts about the world can be observed and tested independently from the individual who describes them (scienti c research aims for this) As soon as people observe an event, their interpretation of it becomes subjective subjective: knowledge of an event is shaped by prior beliefs, expectations, experiences, and moods. Drive for objectivity in uences how scienti c research is conducted in ve ways: 5. it is based on measurements that are objective, valid, and reliable it can be generalized it uses techniques that reduces bias it is made public it can be replicated.
