Available under Creative Commons-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Explain how researchers in psychology test their theories, and give a concrete example.
- Explain how psychologists reevaluate theories in light of new results, including some of the complications involved.
- Describe several ways to incorporate theory into your own research.
We have now seen what theories are, what they are for, and the variety of forms that they take in psychological research. In this section we look more closely at how researchers actually use them. We begin with a general description of how researchers test and revise their theories, and we end with some practical advice for beginning researchers who want to incorporate theory into their research.
- 1951 reads
