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Psychologists may use the scientific method to conduct their
research as it can be regarded a highly scientific and reliable research
method
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Investigations can therefore be carried out in a highly
controlled, objective laboratory experiments and repeated to gain
further reliability
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An example of this could be the application of capacity to
short-term memory experiments and investigations
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Replicable research is essential in psychology in order to bear
any weight amongst both the scientific and psychological
community; research which cannot be scientifically proven or
disproven and repeated may be less appreciated such the Freud’s
theory of personality development in relation to the psychodynamic
approach
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Although reductionism can be divided into two
sectors, both as a strength and a weakness, it can be essential in
scientific methodology in relation to psychological data
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Psychologists may wish to investigate
differing contributors to behaviour, such as biological, behavioural,
cognitive or psychodynamic assumptions
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The theory focuses on purely biological functioning
of stress, although it is an acceptable assumption that individual
factors may contribute to individual responses to stress
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Sometimes reducing or chunking the
data into manageable parts is more successful than dealing with the
data fully
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For example, respectable
research into worth- while causes may be carried out scientifically to
show the research has been carefully thought out, planned and
prepped
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The study was highly controlled whereby the
independent variable could be manipulated so induce validity, thus it
gained much respect
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Therefore the study holds less scientific weight, and may be less
respected
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Scientific methodology usually has much credibility, particularly
throughout the quantitive and qualitive variations of data
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Such data provides a better representative of the human race, as
oppose to small samples
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Descriptive data is also important in scientific
methodology to allow a certain depth of information to be
investigated; the more qualitive data is the more valid it is likely to
be
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The use of scientific methodology can be regarded as highly efficient
and effective in producing reliable and valid data
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