Research Midterm

Agreement reality - accepting reality of things you don't personally experience.

Experiential reality - direct observation

• logic- make sense
• observation - correspond with what we observe

collective actions and situations of many individuals

values or chracteristics or qualities that describe an object.

logical sets of attributes.

independent is presumed to cause or determine a dependent variable.

values that are not problematical in an anlysis but are taken as simply given.

depends on or is caused by another variable.

mistakes in observation

• make the observation more deliberate
• simple and complex measuring devices

assuming that a few similar evenst are evidence of a general pattern - overgeneralize based on limited observation

• seeking a sufficiently large sample
• replication of inquiry

repeating an experiment to expose or reduce error

after realizing that a pattern exists and developing a general understanding of why, you tend to focus on future events and situations that fit the pattern, ignore those that don't.

specify in advance the number and kind of observations to be made

make special effor to find deviant cases

handling observations in a way that contradicts the way things are in real life - the exception that proves the rule

use systems of logic s consciously and explicitly