This episode focuses on the research methodology used in psychology, and a walk through of several descriptive methods. This was the audio portion of a narrated PowerPoint video based on the psychology 2e textbook from openstax.org. 

Video Lecture with Captions and Time Stamps

Textbook: https://openstax.org/details/books/psychology-2e 

Content Index: 

Why is research important? 

Thinking critically/scientifically 

Inductive v. deductive reasoning 

Scientific Method, theory v. hypothesis 

Approaches to research 

case studies 

observation 

Surveys 

archival research 

longitudinal and cross sectional research 

correlational research 

correlation does not mean causation 

Illusory Correlation & confirmation bias

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