the scientific method

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1. What is a theory? What does a theory accomplish?  Why do psychologists care about theories?

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our best explanation for an aspect of behavior. it makes predictions regarding how people will act/respond.

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what is the scientific method?

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how theories are created

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1. What is hypothesis? How is a hypothesis different from a theory?

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a testable prediction regarding conditions under which an event will occur. you make an observation based on a theory

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1. What does it mean to operationalize?

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decide how to measure all the relevant variables (observe)

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1. What is a research design?

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how we plan to structure the study in order to test the hypothesis

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1. What happens when you analyze data?

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you draw conclusions about your results

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1. Why is it important to publish research findings? What do these publications do?

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it's essentially meaningless if you don't share it. people can expand on your data