Hypothesis Flashcards
What is experimental hypothesis
PREDICTS the EFFECTS of SPECIFIED ANTECEDENTS on behavior
Made to give answers to questions
Hypothesis
Characteristics of XPH
Parsimonious
Fruitful
Testable/disprovable
Synthetic statement
Answers to synthetic statements
True or false
What makes an XPH fruitful
Leads to new research
H can be found through
Prior research Intuition Serendipity Induc Deduc
Specific to general way of finding H
Induction
General to specific way of finding H
Deduction
Role of Review of RL
Hypothesis formation
The most difficult to do in a research
Find a problem
How can problems be solved
Gathering data
More of a checklist way of finding H
Deduction
Explains PRECISE meaning of IV
Experimental operational condition
Describes what we do to measure variables
Measured operational definition
Variables wc cant be observed directly are
Hypothetical constructs
The value of XP research can be known if
It causes effects
Challenge for IV
How to administer/set up
Challenge for DV
How to measure