Psychology › Section B · Psychological research › Topic B.1
Why research is important
Without research we would navigate our complex world on intuition, authority and blind luck - and history shows how badly that goes. This topic covers why evidence beats certainty, how contradictory findings are a field thinking, and the two kinds of reasoning science runs on.
In this topic
- The alternative to research is being wrong
- Contradictory findings: a field thinking out loud
- Facts and opinions
- The people who built the evidence
- Two directions of reasoning: deductive and inductive
- Theories and hypotheses
- Falsifiability: the make-or-break property
- Worked example: evaluating a health claim
- Worked example: a falsifiable hypothesis meets replication
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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