Read the summary and the most important questions on Research Methods in Psychology Evaluating a World of Information | 9780393936933 | Beth Morling

• 1 psychology is a way of thinking

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• what is empiricism or empirical research?

  research with as basis for conclusions evidence gained from the senses.

• what is the parsimony of a theory?

  a theory should not be unnecessarily complex.

• what is a correction meganism 2 examples?

  a system that checks your research for potential biases or incompletions before publicing it.
  - peer review
  - replication

• what are the three basic rules of science?

  - openness; everybody needs to be able to see how you did it
  - thoroughness; go through the whole cycle of empirical research
  - honesty

• what are non-scientific everyday sources of knowledge?

  experience, intuition, authority.

• what does a comparison group do?

  it shows the researcher what would happen both with or without the researched variable.

• what is a confederate?

  an actor playing a specific role in a research

• what is good story bias?

  people tend to believe good story's or conclusions that feel natural or make sense.

• what is present/present bias?

  our failure to consider appropriate comparison groups, we forget to seek information that "is't there" and only focus on information that is present.

• 3 interrogation tools for consumers of research.

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• what is the name for something that in a study could potentially vary but has only one level in a specific study.

  a constant.