The Scientific Method and It's Relation to Psychology "An approach to knowledge that relies on the collecting of data, generating a theory to explain the data, producing testable hypotheses based on the theory, and testing those hypotheses empirically." ... Psychologists are everyday people who take their curiosity further than the average person, resulting in the need for organization and guidance. ... Throughout their journey, they have a number of ways to test these theories and make predictions on their outcomes. ... Once research has begun, the theories are tested and re-tested ...

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The quote above is indeed correct in the way that scientific societies constantly re-test and preform tests again to see if they will yield the same results. ... When trying to conduct a human science observation, one must also take into account that the temperature, lighting, colors, and people around make the difference in attitude and emotion expressed. ... However, one weekend, the weather was overcast and there were no people at the park. ... Although there are problems with re-testing, there is value in it. ... This constant testing to narrow down possibilities helps our knowledge in res...

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Another threat to internal validity is testing. This threat only occurs in the pre-post design which is where and pre-test and a post-test are given. ... This occurs when alternate forms of tests are given. ... This occurs when people from your sample drop out during the study. ... This may occur because some may have gotten lucky when taking the pretest and others may not have taken the test very seriously. ...

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Some people have raised the questions "is it worth it?" and "should science really be exploiting these people?" ... For the most part, humans can volunteer themselves for these tests. ... Sometimes it is impossible to test a hypothesis on a fully informed patient. ... People should have the right to volunteer as long as they are well educated about the procedures and compensated fairly. ...

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To start you had to find people that were willing to take the time to take the test. ... Some said no but that was okay because there were many more people on this campus that were willing to take the survey. ... After finding someone willing to take the test a few times I realized that they were not eligible to participate in the study. For some reasons they had already taken the test previously, some had not even been to the gym, or knew where it was in some cases. ... And from all the people that I had contact with they all wanted to see some changes done to the gym. ...

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I chose this topic because I as well as many people in my family have been labeled "gifted" early on in school. ... Preoperational children are able to make mental representations of unseen objects, but cannot use deductive reasoning, demonstrate conservation of number, and can differentiate their perspective from that of other people. ... In doing research for this paper I thought I would find specific examples of how Piaget's theory helped form standards for and develop intelligence tests. I really didn't find much of that one resource even suggested ...

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It could not be tested how an electronic device is supposed to help improve memory. It's not science if it cannot be tested or disproved in any meaningful way. ... He must make a realistic hypothesis, collect the data, and then test it. ... Given that, some people still claimed to have memory improvements. ... If people expect to have side effects, there is a greater chance of those responses to occur. ...

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The second definition is thatscience is a study of people and the society they live in?. ... The way the second definition studies this content is by testing in controlled situations how human's interact with one another and their environment. Then make conclusion on how to make life for a certain region or people better such as in the case of the Nazi's. The nazi's studied their people and felt that the racial science? ... the reason this is so inaccurate is because science is not just concocting potions or doing mystical testing. ...

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Through everything that we absorb daily, we are shaped into the people we will be by a young age. ... They sampled saliva from each subject to test the amount of nicotine residue in the saliva. ... Higgins, tests a somewhat new and foreign area of crime: cyber crime. ... The second restraint of this study was the theory it was testing. Morris and Higgins claim that they could not test all of social learning theory's components. ...

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For the conservation experiment, I used both the liquid quantity test and the conservation of number test. ... For a child Brandon's age, it is not very uncommon to fail this test. Even though Brandon failed the liquid quantity test, he redeemed himself with the conservation of number test. ... Moral Characteristics I created a scenario to test Brandon's sense of morality. ... I thought that this is relevant to the observation because many people stereotype children as being dependent on adults and cannot do anything autonomously. ...

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In the experiment reported in chapter 6, sensitive testing revealed a considerable increase in E's vocabulary knowledge after she encountered target words that occurred two, three or four times in a German novella. The experiments with R and W, which were carefully designed to isolate the effect of each reading encounter, used the sensitive testing technique to trace growth over the course of many encounters with hundreds of target words. ... This sounds like good advice at a time when uninterrupted attention to a long stretch of text is an increasingly rare experience for many people. .....

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This helps the kids think quickly and hopefully help them get ready for tests. ... This can be used for a review for a test or exam, or even at the end of the week to debrief. ... Another example of set induction would be as the article says: by comparing a group of people to a pile of books, it is possible to show that one cannot really judge people by their appearance any more than one can judge a book by its cover. ... After they analyze the students formulate a hypothesis, test the hypothesis, draw conclusions, and make recommendations. ... Students should be given the opportunity to...

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The hypothesis is tested through the analysis of a research result. ... Decision-Making: Research is important because the result from it enables people make informed decisions in every area of endeavour, be it in government or in academics. ... The operational definition removes the concept from the feelings and intuitions of a particular individual and allows it to be tested by anyone who can carry out the measurable operations.... Testability: This means that every research must be testable for it to be regarded as a good research. ... Hence, the researcher should not make the research too...

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It discusses how diversity brings not just new people, but new ideas and talent to contribute to society. ... Diversity is inclusive, not just of people, but of different ideas and mindsets. ... Critics claim that some students that are more qualified-those who attended better high schools, have higher GPAs and test scores, etc.... If they didn't see the value of having a diverse campus, every student would have a 4.0 high school GPA and perfect test scores. ... As is the case with many minorities, one student may have gone to a less rigorous public school, and even gotten slightly lowe...

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In addition, technology is the technical means people use to improve their surroundings. ... Through technology, people communicate better. Technology allows people to make better and more products. ... But they failed to become the mainstream culture in China - Chinese education and curricula were still solidly based on the civil-war examination system which tested students' mastery of Confuscius classics. ... But they failed to become the mainstream culture in China - Chinese education and curricula were still solidly based on the civil-war examination system which tested stu...

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Focus Groups Group of people with a moderator to discuss a particular topic, concept or product is called focus group. ... Personally Administered Questionnaire - Easy/efficient/cost effective - Responses could be collected in a short period of time - Doubts if any could be clarified - Opportunity to motivate the respondent - The disadvantage of PAQ is that many people avoid such practices especially in working hours Mail Questionnaires - Wide geographically scattered areas can be covered - Convenient for the respondents to fill them at comfortable time and place - Return rate is ge...

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Second category, Collective Fact: You have been told this is true all of your life by all the people you love and respect (a collective) so it is embedded into your way of life that it is true. ... This truth has been proven time and time again trough scientific testing therefore making it the truth, a fact. ...

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One of the reasons that sampling is important is that it is not likely that an investigator to be able to study all the people or cases in a given category. ... A sample is taken from the entire group of people or cases that involve direct interest to their investigation. ... To carry this out the researcher should use a pilot test. ...

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Artists and scientists alike study people, materials, culture, history, and religion, and transform the information they research into something else. Both science and art involve investigation, ideas, and testing, whether in a laboratory or studio. ...

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A typical security system however comprises several complex components such as technology, processes, practices as well as people. ... The key component of people with all their psychology who are subjected to a security system, pours live in its previously layed out skeleton and ultimately determines its effectiveness. ... On the other hand, the majority of mankind is made up of genuinly honest people, who simply do not steal. ... The scientific method of diagnosing a complex system tells us to isolate the phenomenon of interest, by eliminating or accounting for extraneous factors, an...

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Career Report Project Computer Hardware Engineers have to research, design, develop, and test computer or computer-related equipment for commercial, industrial, military, or scientific use. ... This job also has a very good pay, and you get to work with other people, which benefits them as you teach them the traits of a good computer hardware engineer. ...

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Without attempting to make a hasty generilazation, it is rational to say that most people find science a dreadful subject. ... His argument was that he found that empirical observation and formal experiments was crucial and the only effective way of testing hypotheses. ... Something that I found very relevant to why many people find it difficult to deal with science is probably because we are "social beings," which means that we generally prefer not to deal with anything that has to do with our "non-social" world. ...

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MILGRAM'S STUDY OF OBEDIENCE Motivated by the brutality of Nazi Germany, Stanley Milgram devised an experiment to test how people respond to authority. "Fourteen Yale psychology majors were provided with a detailed description of the experiment. They were asked to predict the hypothetical behavi...

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Positivism, epistemology based on the scientific process of hypotheses, testing, and conclusion, has come to dominate the field and is the area Jaggar addresses when speaking of thedispassionate investigation.? ... If a system is set to oppress certain groups, and all people in that society have the values associated with that oppression, then unless we begin to examine our own actions and beliefs in all spectrums of our lives, including those consideredserious,? ...

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Therefore, the people of this era depicted science as a key element to ignite political and religious change. ... This array of unique values for judgement causes theories to appear correct in only certain areas and by certain people. ... Numerous people utilized science to bolster their religious or political position. ... The people of Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries were driven to promote moral order and the open spread of ideas for the common good. In the political arena, the rulers encouraged the collaboration amongst specific groups and provided the atmosphere to test these the...

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