Research, Statistics & Psychology

Research, Statistics & Psychology

The scientific, objective, and the methodic gathering of information for a theory

is research. Statistics is collection of data, interpretation, the analysis, and presentation of the data.

Statistical data is the important part to any good research. Psychology, statistics is the method

of pursuing the truth (Aron, Aron, & Coup, 2009). The statistics methods is to make

sense out of the large amount of data collected during research by psychologists. This

paper will explore the role of research and statistics in psychology field. The paper will give

the definition of the research and the scientific method, and the characteristics of the primary

and secondary data that researcher use to help form an hypothesis. The paper will also

explore the role of statistics in research.

Research and Scientific Method

Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines research has the, “studious inquiry or examination,

especially: investigation or experimentation aimed at the discovery and interpretation of facts,

revision of accepted theories or laws in the light of new facts, or practical application of such

new or revised theories or laws” (Research, n.d).

Scientific method is a process of in research, “scientists, collectively and over time, endeavor

to construct an accurate representation of the world” (Wolfs, n.d). When someone uses scientific

method is to help limit the influence of prejudice or bias of the individual research

in testing the theory or the hypothesis.

The process of the scientific method has steps to follow when doing a research. It depends

on the source that has many ranges of numbers of steps in the scientific method. The method, no

matter how many number of steps, the method goes through the same process of

gathering and testing of the information. The models for the scientific method have

seven, or eight steps to follow. The first step is to...