ABSTRACT
The research process includes carefully planning and documenting the research, securing supplies, resources, and possibly funding, actually doing the research, and the dissemination of research findings, through presentation at a conference and/or writing a paper for publication. Careful planning and documentation of research is important now more than ever. This starts with keeping good notes, records, and documenting the ideas. In order to avoid hassles with collaborators, it is important to spell out in detail the responsibilities of each member of a research team. The Open Science movement in psychology arose out of concerns regarding the replicability crisis and the methodological and cultural aspects that may be creating erroneous results in the psychological literature. In almost every psychological experiment, researchers collect numerical data, which can be conceptualized in two categories: descriptive data and inferential data. Conveniently, these two types of data correspond to the two major types of experimental investigation: observational studies and experimental studies.
