Lectures-Conceptual-Models

After having watched this video you will know:

• The common assumptions researchers make when drawing conceptual models
  • chronological order
    
  • causality
    
  • causal importance
    
• That relationships between concepts have directions/valence and that it is good practice to make these explicit.
  
• That choosing the right labels for your concepts is important:
  • because only with good labels does it make sense to assign valence to the relations;
    
  • labels should be close to both the concept as intended as the concept as measured;
    
  • researchers operate in (politically and scientifically) sensitive environments and labels should be (cross-culturally, cross-disciplinary) appropriate.