PSYB01H3 Chapter 2: Chapter 2
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Quasiexperimental, correlational, survey and single-subject or small-n research: an experimental study can be used when the researcher wants to test cause and effect. Description: scientific understanding entails two distinct but related processes, description, explanation, conceptual definition provides the meaning, often rather broad in scope, of an abstract term, such as intelligence, anxiety, or emotion, operational definitions follow from conceptual definitions. Explanation: explanation can include both prediction as well as establishing cause and effect, cook and campbell. 2: program evaluation studies the effects on behavior of large-scale policy changes and as well social reforms and innovations occurring in government, schools. Courts, prisons, businesses, health care, housing, and so forth: basic research often has exceptionally important applications that are impossible to predict. Serendipity a prepared yet open mind increases the chances of accidentally discovering something fortunate. In many instances, your research question will flow directly from a theory.
