Lecture 3: Idea Development
9/7/05
- Kinds of Research
- What is basic research?
- What is applied research?
- Is one more valuable than the other?
- Laboratory Research
- Field Research
- Ideal situation
- Empirical Questions
- Something you can actually investigate an answer
- Operational Definitions
- Ideas from Life & Serendipity
- Seeing someone do something wacky and thinking "Yeah, that’d be cool to study."
- What is serendipity?
- Ideas from Theory
- What is a theory?
- Examples?
- What is a hypothesis?
- Can we prove a theory?
- Can we disprove a theory?
- What makes a good theory?
- Ideas from Other Research
- What’s next?
- Replication/Extension
Research
Methods Page
Last updated: 9/6/05