confidence interval‚ you should do at least 3 hypothesis tests.) Paper: Write a paper that includes the following: • An introduction that gives an overview of the big idea of your project and the research questions you sought to answer • A methods section that clearly states your methodology (what data did you collect‚ how did you collect it‚ and how do you plan to analyze it?) • A results section that clearly states how you analyzed the data (clearly report the results of your data analysis…
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Scientific Paranormal – Paranormal Series October 2010 Canastota Library Session One: Understanding The Paranormal About us: Scientific Paranormal- Scientific Paranormal is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing professional and scientific answers to unexplained phenomena in order to alleviate the fear and misunderstanding associated with this. We were founded in 2007 in Syracuse NY. We expanded an additional team in 2009 in Connecticut. The organization provides direct support
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Types of research methods and disciplines A dissertation is an extended piece of writing based on comprehensive reading and research‚ written by an academic scholar at an undergraduate‚ masters or post graduate level. In some cases‚ a dissertation is referred to an academic research document written at PhD level‚ while a Thesis may be one which is written by an academic at Masters or Undergraduate level. However the opposite is also true in other cases. Etymology The word ‘dissertation’ was derived
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Purpose: What happens when you drop mentos in to Diet Coke? _________________________________________________________ Hypothesis: When I drop the Mint Mentos in to the Diet Coke I think it will cause some sort of an explosion. _________________________________________________________ Materials: For this experiment you will need - One 2 litre bottle of Diet Coke - One roll of White Mint Mentos - Space outdoors - Clothes that you wouldn’t mind getting wet or dirty _________________________________________________________
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Misconception about the nature of scientific knowledge (nature of science) The definition of scientific knowledge is that it is “accumulated by systematic study and organized by general principles”. Many people think that scientific knowledge is absolute and cannot change‚ but this is not true‚ because science is a process for producing knowledge the process is to make careful observations of phenomena and to invent theories out of those observations. Change in knowledge is necessary‚ because
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- IV causation DV Example of a good experiment Random assignment to groups - expt grp --> pre test --> expt treatment --> post test - control grp --> pre test --> post test Is yawning contagious? Random Sampling and Random Assignment One time of randomization‚ splitting process will have another randomization To avoid bias Replicable Why we need expt and control grp Need to ensure similarity btw the personal characteristics of the control and expt grp Is it the IV tht cause the changes
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There are five essential components of scientific inquiry teaching that introduce students to many important aspects of science while helping them to develop a clearer and deeper knowledge of some particular science concept and/or process. Research has demonstrated that student involvement in the inquiry process provides a much needed connection and ownership of scientific investigations that will lead to a deeper conceptual knowledge about the content. Inquiry can be labeled as “partial”
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Scientific objectivity‚ according to Louise Antony and Thomas Kuhn‚ is fundamentally unattainable because of the human epistemological condition. The open-mindedness‚ or freedom from existing notions‚ that pervades almost all definitions of “objectivity” is inherently uncharacteristic of the human mind‚ and Antony explains that scientific reluctance to entertain new‚ controversial hypotheses is one manifestation of this innate mental road-block. When scientists view data that contradicts the central
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Psychology Research Methods • The general investigative purpose of a psychology study (why the researcher has decided to conduct an investigation) is called its aim. • A hypothesis is a precise and testable statement of what the researcher predicts will be the outcome of the study. In an experiment this is called the experimental hypothesis. • In a correlational study the hypothesis is called a research hypothesis‚ and it will predict a relationship between two variables. • A research
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THE UNIVERSITY OF ZIMBABWE NAME ROBIN T SURNAME NKONDE REGISTRATION NUMBER R116279X DEGREE PROGRAM BSc HONOURS IN PSYCHOLOGY COURSE AND CODE QUALITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS IN PSYCHOLOGY (PSY 212) LECTURER MR MATIKA ASSIGNMENT QUESTION: “Qualitative research methods are designed to help researchers understand individuals‚ the social and cultural context within which they stay. Understanding the phenomena from the point of view of the individual and its particular
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