{"id":569,"date":"2018-11-05T21:50:28","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T21:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/irmp101\/?page_id=569"},"modified":"2018-11-05T21:50:28","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T21:50:28","slug":"overview","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/irmp101\/learning-pathways\/theories-and-measurement\/overview\/","title":{"rendered":"Overview"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\" class=\"mw-body container\" role=\"main\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n<div class=\"panel\">\n<div class=\"panel-body\">\n<div id=\"bodyContent\">\n<div id=\"mw-content-text\" lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" class=\"mw-content-ltr\">\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"center\">\n<div class=\"floatnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/WikiEducator.org\/File:Research_terms_Wordle_2.jpg\" class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Research terms Wordle 2.jpg\" src=\"\/\/WikiEducator.org\/images\/thumb\/f\/f1\/Research_terms_Wordle_2.jpg\/400px-Research_terms_Wordle_2.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"258\" class=\"img-responsive\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Overview\">Overview<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Now that you have a basic grasp of psychological science and have begun to design and plan your research project, it is time to turn to the specifics of how psychological theories work and how variables can be measured. As you complete Unit 2 you should reflect on the material you learn and in combination with the previous unit begin preparing a research proposal.\n<\/p>\n<p>The topics to be covered in this unit are:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Theories\n<\/li>\n<li> Hypothesis Testing\n<\/li>\n<li> Levels of Measurement\n<\/li>\n<li> Reliability &amp; Validity\n<\/li>\n<li> Conceptual and Operational Definitions of Psychological Constructs\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!-- \nNewPP limit report\nCPU time usage: 0.017 seconds\nReal time usage: 0.017 seconds\nPreprocessor visited node count: 5\/1000000\nPreprocessor generated node count: 16\/1000000\nPost\u2010expand include size: 0\/2097152 bytes\nTemplate argument size: 0\/2097152 bytes\nHighest expansion depth: 2\/40\nExpensive parser function count: 0\/100\n--><\/p>\n<p><!-- Saved in parser cache with key wikiedu-mw_:pcache:idhash:184409-0!*!*!*!*!2!* and timestamp 20181105191432 and revision id 1056539\n -->\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"visualClear\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n<ul class=\"pager\">\n<li class=\"previous\">\n            <a href=\"\/irmp101\/learning-pathways\/approaches-to-knowledge\/activities-and-assessments-checklist\">\u2190 Previous<\/a>\n          <\/li>\n<li class=\"next\">\n            <a href=\"\/irmp101\/learning-pathways\/theories-and-measurement\/outcomes\">Next \u2192<\/a>\n          <\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<footer>\n<br \/>\n<\/footer>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview Now that you have a basic grasp of psychological science and have begun to design and plan your research project, it is time to turn to the specifics of how psychological theories work and how variables can be measured. As you complete Unit 2 you should reflect on the material you learn and in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":868,"featured_media":0,"parent":567,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-569","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/irmp101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/irmp101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/irmp101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/irmp101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/868"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/irmp101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/irmp101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":570,"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/irmp101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/569\/revisions\/570"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/irmp101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/irmp101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}