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Psychological Research

Psychological Research is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Psychological Research rather than just read about it. In short: Psychological Research (full title: Psychological Research: An International Journal of Perception, Attention, Memory, and Action) is a bimonthly peer-reviewed psychology journal published by Springer Science+Business Media. It was established in 1921 as Psychologische Forschung, obtaining its current name in 1974.

Key takeaways

Psychological Research belongs to science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Psychological Research to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Psychological Research from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Psychological Research (full title: Psychological Research: An International Journal of Perception, Attention, Memory, and Action) is a bimonthly peer-reviewed psychology journal published by Springer Science+Business Media. It was established in 1921 as Psychologische Forschung, obtaining its current name in 1974. The co-founders of the journal were Max Wertheimer, Kurt Koffka, Wolfgang Köhler, Kurt Goldstein, and Hans Walter Gruhle. The journal went on to become the primary organ of the gestalt psychology movement. The current editor-in-chief is Bernhard Hommel (Leiden University). According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2015 impact factor of 2.681.

References

External links Official website

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Psychological Research

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Psychological Research claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Psychological Research before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Psychological Research ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Psychological Research

In research: Psychological Research appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Psychological Research in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Psychological Research is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Academic journals established in 1921, Bimonthly journals, English-language journals, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Psychological Research outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Psychological Research in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Psychological Research means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Psychological Research out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Psychological Research in simple terms?

Why does Psychological Research matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Psychological Research?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Psychological Research.