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When is Lab research more important than Applied research?
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When is Lab research more important than Applied research? Readings- 1. Neisser: Memory: What are the important questions? 2. Conway: In defense of everyday memory 3. Banaji & Crowder: The bankruptcy of everyday memory Clearly, there are different philosophies as to whether it is more important to maintain experimental rigor or to direct one's studies toward practical problems (or, field research) even if at the cost of some experimental rigor. As in most arguments of this type, each side has its merits, and under some conditions one approach is more important than the other, but for other approaches, the relative balance of the two arguments reverses. Under what conditions (questions, conceptual or applied problems, task, etc.) would you expect that maintaining theoretical rigor is more important and under what conditions would you expect the practical applied aspect of research to be more important. Try to address this question from a...
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