RM wheel

Wheel entries:

• The role of peer review in the scientific process.
• The implications of psychological research for the economy.
• Reliability across all methods of investigation. Ways of measuring reliability: test-retest and inter observer; improving reliability.
• Types of validity across all methods of investigation: face validity, concurrent validity, ecological validity and temporal validity. Measurement of validity. Improving validity.
• Features of science: objectivity and the empirical method
• Features of science: replicability
• Features of science: falsifiability
• Features of science: theory construction and hypothesis testing
• Features of science: paradigms and paradigm shifts.
• Reporting psychological investigations. Sections of a scientific report: abstract, introduction, method, results, discussion and referencing.