Research Methods in Psychology

1. Goal of research: to discover relationships among
variables

2. Types of variables

3. Types of relationships among variables

4. Uses of research findings: Prediction

Theory Construction

Intervention

5. Correlation does not imply causality

6. Types of research designs: Descriptive

Experimental

7. Pros and cons of descriptive vs.experimental

designs

8. Internal validity versus external validity

9. Criteria for inferring cause-effect relationship

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