{"id":8413,"date":"2019-05-22T16:07:26","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/method\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:07:26","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:07:26","slug":"method","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/method\/","title":{"rendered":"Method"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This term has a number of meanings (e.g., brain storming, heuristics), but here it refers to the scientific method. &nbsp;This means having procedures for the systematic pursuit of knowledge involving the recognition and formulation of a problem, the collection of data through observation and experiment, and the formulation and testing of hypotheses. &nbsp;The term is usually qualified to indicate a particular method (e.g., the hypothetico-deductive method, which some consider to be <span class=\"\" style=\"text-decoration: underline solid rgb(86, 86, 86);\">the<\/span> scientific method). &nbsp;Methods do not exist in a vacuum, but are dictated by the contents and focus of the theory being tested. &nbsp;Finally, method is not the same as a procedure or a technique.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"hypothetico-deductive_method\">Hypothetico-deductive method<\/a>, <a href=\"paradigm\">Paradigm<\/a>, <a href=\"procedure\">Procedure<\/a>, <a href=\"technique\">Technique<\/a>, Theory <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This term has a number of meanings (e.g., brain storming, heuristics), but here it refers to the scientific method. &nbsp;This means having procedures for the systematic pursuit of knowledge involving the recognition and formulation of a problem, the collection of data through observation and experiment, and the formulation and testing of hypotheses. &nbsp;The term is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/method\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Method&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}