Describe the research loop (be sure to briefly describe each stage). Tell the (3) different ways that it is applied and what we learn from that each type of application.
1. The research loop. The stages of the reaserch loop are followings: First of all the researcher has to have the idea what he/she wants to study. He/she has to do the library research to find out about similiar studies/researches. Secondly, the researcher has to form the hypothesy. He/she has to make a plan how to test the hypothesy: 1)Population - who is going to participate in the study. 2)Setting - where the study will take place? 3) Task/stimuli - what to test in the study. 4)Social/temporal - think if that study will work later. Thirdly, the researcher has to do the study by collecting data, analyzing data. After testing the hypotheses, the researcher has to retest it a few times to find out if it really works. If not, he/she has to form the new hypothesy and start the process of the research loop all over.
2. The first step of the research loop is to develop a research hypothesis that states what idea(s) you would like to test. Then you need people to be in your study, called the population, and also where and how you will conduct your experiment. What you will test in your study is called task/stimulus, then from your findings of task/stimulus experiments you can decide to accept or reject your initial hypothesis and develop better ideas from them. Three ways we apply what we learn from the research loop include, initial studies to test the specificty and generalizability of previous studies. Also, replication studies allow us to test the reproducibility of previous studies, and converging studies of new research hypothesis.
3. The research loop consists of doing a literature review, to determine what is already known, forming a research hypotheses to test ones new research and experimentation to carry out the research hypothosis. The three diffrent ways this is applied is first, the initial research hypotheses that is ground breaking research, next comes replication that cements the valididy of the initial research and eventually convergance that changes what was previously done in small ways to gain new knowledge.