Ch. 2: Where to Start Hypotheses

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Ch. 2 Where to Start Hypotheses predictions

• Hypothesis
• An idea or a question waiting for evidence to
  support or refute it
• Specific propositions that logically follow from
  a theory
• Statement relating two or more variables to each
  other

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Ch. 2 Sources of ideas

• Common sense
• Naturalistic observation
• Theories
• Past research
• Practical problems

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Ch. 2

• Library search
• Journals
• Databases
• Psych Abstracts
• Psyc Info
• PubMed

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Ch 2 Parts of a Research article

• Title
• Good titles
• Effects of caffeine on the acoustic startle
  response
• Parenting styles and childrens ability to delay
  gratification
• Poor titles
• A study of memory
• Effects of feedback, anxiety, cuing, and gender
  on semantic and episodic memory under two
  conditions of threat A test of competing
  theories

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Ch 2 Parts of a Research article

• Abstract
• Introduction
• Methods
• Results
• Discussion