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  2. Society of Experimental Psychologists - Wikipedia

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    The Society of Experimental Psychologists (SEP), originally called the Society of Experimentalists, is an academic society for experimental psychologists. It was founded by Edward Bradford Titchener in 1904 to be an ongoing workshop in which members could visit labs, study apparatus, and hear and comment on reports of ongoing research.

  3. Solomon four-group design - Wikipedia

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    The effectiveness of the treatment can be evaluated by comparisons between groups 1 and 3 and between groups 2 and 4. [citation needed]. In addition, the effect of the pre-treatment evaluation can be calculated by comparing the control group who received the pre-treatment evaluation with those who did not (groups 2 and 4).

  4. Society for Experimental Psychology and Cognitive Science

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    The Society for Experimental Psychology and Cognitive Science (SEPCS) [1] (also known as American Psychological Association Division 3; formerly known as the Division of Experimental Psychology and the Division for Theoretical-Experimental Psychology) is a scholarly organization of psychologists in the principal area of general experimental psychology.

  5. Research design - Wikipedia

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    A research design typically outlines the theories and models underlying a project; the research question(s) of a project; a strategy for gathering data and information; and a strategy for producing answers from the data. [1] A strong research design yields valid answers to research questions while weak designs yield unreliable, imprecise or ...

  6. Wikipedia:WikiProject Psychology/How to write a psychology ...

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    Even if a theory has academic supporters and is the subject of experimental research, if it is generally regarded as pseudoscience by the scientific community, this must be made clear when it is discussed on Wikipedia. To do a service to its readers, Wikipedia's coverage of psychology must distinguish amateur, fringe and 'pop' psychology from ...

  7. List of psychological research methods - Wikipedia

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    Quantitative psychological research findings result from mathematical modeling and statistical estimation or statistical inference. The two types of research differ in the methods employed, rather than the topics they focus on. There are three main types of psychological research: Correlational research; Descriptive research; Experimental research

  8. Psychological research - Wikipedia

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    Cross-sectional research is a research method often used in developmental psychology, but also utilized in many other areas including social science and education. This type of study utilizes different groups of people who differ in the variable of interest, but share other characteristics such as socioeconomic status, educational background ...

  9. Experimental analysis of behavior - Wikipedia

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    The experimental analysis of behavior is a science that studies the behavior of individuals across a variety of species. A key early scientist was B. F. Skinner who discovered operant behavior, reinforcers, secondary reinforcers, contingencies of reinforcement, stimulus control, shaping, intermittent schedules, discrimination, and generalization.