Exeter, United Kingdom

Psychological Research Methods

Master's
Language: EnglishStudies in English
Subject area: physical science, environment
Qualification: MSc
Kind of studies: part-time studies
Master of Science (MSc)
University website: www.exeter.ac.uk
Psychological Research
Psychological Research (full title: Psychological Research: An International Journal of Perception, Attention, Memory, and Action) is a bimonthly peer-reviewed psychology journal published by Springer Science+Business Media. It was established in 1921 as Psychologische Forschung, obtaining its current name in 1974. The co-founders of the journal were Max Wertheimer, Kurt Koffka, Wolfgang Köhler, Kurt Goldstein, and Hans Walter Gruhle. The journal went on to become the primary organ of the gestalt psychology movement. The current editor-in-chief is Bernhard Hommel (Leiden University). According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2015 impact factor of 2.681.
Research
Research comprises "creative and systematic work undertaken to increase the stock of knowledge, including knowledge of humans, culture and society, and the use of this stock of knowledge to devise new applications." It is used to establish or confirm facts, reaffirm the results of previous work, solve new or existing problems, support theorems, or develop new theories. A research project may also be an expansion on past work in the field. Research projects can be used to develop further knowledge on a topic, or in the example of a school research project, they can be used to further a student's research prowess to prepare them for future jobs or reports. To test the validity of instruments, procedures, or experiments, research may replicate elements of prior projects or the project as a whole. The primary purposes of basic research (as opposed to applied research) are documentation, discovery, interpretation, or the research and development (R&D) of methods and systems for the advancement of human knowledge. Approaches to research depend on epistemologies, which vary considerably both within and between humanities and sciences. There are several forms of research: scientific, humanities, artistic, economic, social, business, marketing, practitioner research, life, technological, etc.
Research
Hail, follow, well met,
All dirty and wet:
Find out, if you can,
Who's master, who's man.
Jonathan Swift, My Lady's Lamentation; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 400.
Research
It is a good thing for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast.
Konrad Lorenz, On Aggression, 1966.
Research
Attempt the end and never stand to doubt;
Nothing's so hard but search will find it out.
Robert Herrick, Hesperides (1648), Seeke and Finde.
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