Investigating the Psychological World Haig Brian Douglas
Investigating the Psychological World Haig Brian Douglas A broad theory of research methodology for psychology and the behavioral sciences that offers a coherent treatment of a range of behavioral…
Specifikacia Investigating the Psychological World Haig Brian Douglas
Investigating the Psychological World Haig Brian Douglas
A broad theory of research methodology for psychology and the behavioral sciences that offers a coherent treatment of a range of behavioral research methods.This book considers scientific method in the behavioral sciences, with particular reference to psychology. In Investigating the Psychological World, Brian Haig fills this gap. Psychologists learn about research methods and use them to conduct their research, but their training teaches them little about the nature of scientific method itself.
He terms this account of method the abductive theory of method (ATOM) in recognition of the importance it assigns to explanatory reasoning. Drawing on behavioral science methodology, the philosophy of science, and statistical theory, Haig constructs a broad theory of scientific method that has particular relevance for the behavioral sciences. ATOM offers the