Aims and Hypotheses

What are aims developed from?

In pyschological research, they’re developed from theories.

What do theories tend to be in psychology?

Much more sophisticated and are based on many more hours of research.

What are aims?

General statements that describe the purpose of the investigation.

What do you need to formulate after written an aim?

A hypothesis

What’s a hypothesis?

A statement that’s made at the start of the study and clearly states the relationship between variables as stated by the theory.

What can hypotheses be?

Directional or non-directional

What do researchers do in a directional hypothesis?

The researcher makes clear the sort of difference that’s anticipated between 2 conditions or 2 groups of people.

What type of words would directional hypotheses include?

Words like more or less, higher or lower, faster or slower.

What does a non-directional hypothesis state?

There’s a difference between conditions or groups of people, but, the nature of the difference isn’t specified.