Research Methods in Psychology alt 1641401927

mind-and-cognition

• Can we not reach the same conclusions based on common sense or intuition? Intuitive beliefs about behavior, thoughts, and feelings are not always reliable.

  VLA-6BD24F21-RC-020

• Psychology's 'replicability crisis' refers to the inability of researchers to replicate earlier findings, illustrating science's collaborative and self-correcting nature.

  VLA-6BD24F21-RC-348

obedience-and-authority

• Men who were poor and African American, without resources, believed they had found hope when offered free medical care—used in research without their knowledge and consent.

  VLA-6BD24F21-RC-066

• Ethics is concerned with morality—what it means to behave morally—and provides moral guidance in scientific research involving human participants.

  VLA-6BD24F21-RC-062

education-and-formation

• The standard sections of an empirical research report provide a kind of outline; each section contains specific information guiding the writer systematically.

  VLA-6BD24F21-RC-264

• Eysenck compared therapy results with archival data showing similar patients recovered at the same rate without psychotherapy, revealing pretest-posttest design limitations.

  VLA-6BD24F21-RC-211