Designing online experiments

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  • Michael H. Birnbaum
چکیده

A psychological theory is a set of statements that satisfies five philosophical criteria. The first criterion is that the proposed explanation can be used to deduce the behavioural phenomena to be explained. For example, suppose someone asks, ‘Why is bread good to eat?’ We use operational definitions of ‘bread’ and ‘good to eat’ in order to link these concepts to the world of observations. Define a substance as ‘good to eat’ if more than 75 per cent of 1-year-old rats given access to water and that substance under standard lab conditions survive on this diet for six months. Define ‘bread’ as what comes from the market in a package marked ‘Weber’s bread’. The following argument illustrates deduction:

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تاریخ انتشار 2007