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Basic Cognitive Psychology (selective attention: dichotic listening)

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• Developing Research<br />

– From Observations and serendipity<br />

• Hubel and Wiesel (1959)<br />

– From Theory<br />

• A theory (subject to revision)<br />

– Summarizes existing knowledge concisely<br />

– Provides relationships between variables<br />

– Provides explanation<br />

– Makes predictions<br />

• A construct<br />

– Hypothetical factor, not observed directly<br />

– Interference/inhibition, cognitive dissonance<br />

• Deduction<br />

– Reasoning from a set of statements towards the prediction<br />

• Hypothesis (the prediction)<br />

• Induction<br />

– Reasoning from specific events to a theory

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