TY  - INPR
ID  - cogprints2781
UR  - http://cogprints.org/2781/
A1  - Chow, Siu L.
TI  - Experimentation in Psychology--Rationale, Concepts and Issues
Y1  - 2002///
N2  - An experiment is made up of two or more data-collection conditons that are identical in all aspects, but one. It owes its design to an inductive principle and its hypothesis to deductive logic. It is the most suited for corroborating explanatory theries , ascertaining functional relationship, or assessing the substantive effectiveness of a manipulation. Also discussed are (a) the three meanings of 'control,' (b) the issue of ecological validity, (c) the distinction between theory-corroboration and agricultural-model experiments, and (d) the distinction among the hypotheses at four levels of abstraction that are implicit in an experiment.

AV  - public
KW  - Conditional syllogism
KW  -  control
KW  -  criterion of falsification
KW  -  experiment
KW  -  falsification
KW  -  generality
KW  -  Hypothesis
KW  -  induction
KW  -  Modus Ponens
KW  -  Modus Tollens
KW  -  social psychology of the psychological experiment
KW  -  theoretical prescription
KW  -  validity
KW  -  variable
KW  -  verification 
ER  -

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