Archival Research: Description: Existing Data or Records Are Used to Test a Test

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Essay

Archival research:
Description: existing data or records are used to test a hypothesis

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Definitions:

Reinforcement

In behavioral psychology, it is any event that strengthens or increases the behavior it follows.

Behaviorism

A theory of learning based on the idea that all behaviors are acquired through conditioning, emphasizing observable behaviors over internal phenomena like thoughts and feelings.

Learning Theory

A framework for understanding how people acquire new behaviors, skills, attitudes, or knowledge.

Erikson's Stages

refer to a theory by Erik Erikson outlining eight stages of psychosocial development that individuals go through from infancy to late adulthood.