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Author Haig, Brian D., 1945- author.

Title Investigating the psychological world : scientific method in the behavioral sciences / Brian D. Haig.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London : MIT Press, 2014.
©2014
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Description 1 online resource (218 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psychology
Life and mind.
Note "A Bradford book."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Method, methodology, and realism -- Detecting psychological phenomena -- Theory generation: exploratory factor analysis -- Theory development: analogical modeling -- Theory appraisal: inference to the best explanation.
Summary Brian Haig constructs a broad theory of scientific method, which speaks to the conduct of psychological research. This abductive theory of method (ATOM) portrays research as a bottom-up process comprising two broad phases: the detection of empirical phenomena, and the construction of explanatory theories in order to explain claims about the phenomena. ATOM functions as a broad framework theory within which a variety of more specific research methods can be located and employed. A coherent treatment of those methods is enhanced by placing them within the framework of ATOM.
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Subject Psychology -- Research -- Methodology.
Psychology -- Research -- Methodology.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Haig, Brian D., 1945- Investigating the psychological world : scientific method in the behavioral sciences. Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London : MIT Press, ©2014 xix, 197 pages Life and mind. 9780262027366
ISBN 9780262322379 (e-book)
0262322374 (e-book)
0262027364 (electronic book)
9780262027366 (electronic book)
1306550432 (e-book)
9781306550437 (e-book)
9780262027366

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