Inside Psychology Research: From Clinic to Lab

Professor Peterson’s Psychology Classroom · Sep 25, 2026 · 25m · transcript

This episode explains how psychologists design and carry out research: starting with a research question, reviewing literature, forming hypotheses, and using clinical and experimental methods to test treatments and measure outcomes.

It uses a moral identity study (activation vs. control) to show independent/dependent variables, mixed qualitative/quantitative approaches, and the difference between descriptive, correlational, regression, and experimental designs—emphasizing that correlation does not prove causation.