Unit 1 -- Research Hypotheses

Intro:

Much of research activity centers on research hypotheses… Literature reviews to develop them, research designs to collect the data to investigate them, statistical analyses to test them, etc.

Goal:

This exercise will give you practice at identifying the three major types of research hypotheses:

  • Attributive research hypotheses -- hypotheses the specific behaviors exist that can be measures and discriminated from other similar behaviors (e.g., that social anxiety is a separate, specific type of anxiety)
  • Associative research hypotheses -- hypotheses that behaviors/variables are related and that knowing the and that knowing the value of one can allow you to estimate or predict the value of the other
  • Causal research hypotheses -- hypotheses that differences in the amount or kind of one behavior causes/produces/creates/changes/etc. differences in amount or kind of the other behavior

Topics:

There are three topics in this exercise:

  1. Identifying attributive research hypotheses
  2. Identifying associative research hypotheses
  3. Identifying causal research hypotheses

Reading:

This PowerPoint will describe research hypotheses, specify the three major types and prepare you for the web-based exercise. Prelude to the Research Hypotheses Lecture (pdf)

 

 

Exercise:

Go to the Psyc350 Canvas section, open the Modules & look in “Unit 1 Pink Things” --  complete the exercise titled  Research Hypotheses Prelude

Due Date:

Please have this done before the next lecture -- we will be building on this information then!