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2 years ago Anonymous Using Research Questions Identify and describe one area of psychology where you think there should be more empirical research conducted. Illustrate your thoughts with an example, and explain how you would design the study you're imagining

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Empirical studies are studies based on actual and objective observation or experimentation. Descriptions and results of empirical studies are published in scholarly/peer-reviewed journals. Literature reviews, on the other hand, are summaries of published research on a particular topic and are not empirical studies.It is used to authenticate traditional research through various experiments and observations.This research methodology makes the research being conducted more competent and authentic.

If we assume that psychological processes are irreversible, it follows that all apparent constancy in psychological phenomena is conditional on stability of outcome and will disappear if and when the outcome is changed.

This conditional nature of stability means that psychological research cannot be a search for ever-lasting invariance (laws), but only for more or less local and temporary regularity.

Hence, psychological findings are in principle historical, and different from findings in the natural sciences that often involve genuine invariants, and are in principle reversible.