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The scientific study of behavior and mental processes. Psychological research methods connect theoretical questions to observations, while psychometrics studies how psychological attributes can be measured and interpreted.

A psychology researcher develops and tests explanations of behavior and mental processes. The work can involve experiments, repeated observation, psychometrics or explicit computational models. A useful research question separates the observed response from its proposed cause: for example, repeated self-rated confidence measures a report, while predicting which decisions are correct tests another aspect of metacognition. ^[ref]