SL Psychology/Intro to Research Methods The following items
should be included in this section: The Hypothetico-deductive
(scientific)method, types of psychological research methods,
research designs, sampling, reliability, validity, and
triangulation. Research into mind can be traced back to Ancient
Greece. However, empirical psychological research has its roots
in investigations into cognitive functions such as introspection
and memory. While early psychological researchers attempted to
bring the same standards of rigor and control to their
investigations as physical scientists enjoy, psychological
research poses unique obstacles. Psychological research
investigates mind. Only recently the contents of the mind become
observable since the advent of neuro-imaging technologies such
as EEGs, PET scans, and fMRIs, thus early psychological research
was focused on disagreements between different schools or
generations of researchers that used varied approaches toward
their investigations into the invisible mind. F