RESEARCH METHODS THINKING CRITICALLY WITH PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD AND DESCRIPTION
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Earning good grades causes people to sleep more
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Sleeping more causes students to perform better in school
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Students who earn good grades tend to sleep more than those who do not
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More sleep has a beneficial impact on school performance
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Detailed explanation-1: -If a researcher finds a positive correlation between school grades and school attendance, one can conclude that:-high attendance and high grades occur together.
Detailed explanation-2: -naturalistic observation. A researcher uses a video camera to record children as they play on a school playground. The researcher plans to carefully watch the videotape to count the children’s helping behaviors.
Detailed explanation-3: -An advantage of naturalistic observation is that it allows the investigators to directly observe the subject in a natural setting. The method gives scientists a first-hand look at social behavior and can help them notice things that they might never have encountered in a lab setting.
Detailed explanation-4: -Dehoaxing is the process of convincing subjects who have been deceived as part of a research study that they have in fact been deceived. The purpose of dehoaxing is to prevent possible future harm to the subject. subjects may experience in response to the deception.