Ontology - A researcher’s perspective on the nature of reality, Epistemology - A researcher’s perspective on the nature of gaining knowledge, Methodology - A researcher’s perspective on the best way to represent data, Theory - A fact-based idea that serves to explain behaviours or events, Observation - Actively gaining information from a primary source, Replicability - The ability to obtain consistent results across different studies which are designed to answer the same research question, Generalisability - The ability to apply the findings of a piece of research to a larger population or a different, but similar, situation, Reliability - Whether the measure which you are using can consistently produce the same results multiple times, Validity - Whether the measure which you are using is actually testing whatever it is intended to test, Reductionism - The suggestion that any theory or observation should be reduced to its simplest components in order to understand behaviour,

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