Aims, Hypothesis and Sampling Flashcards

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What research methods are Aims used for?

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Observation and Self Report

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What research methods are Hypothesis used for?

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Experiments and Correlation

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What is a One Tailed Hypothesis?

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Where you predict the direction of the relationship between the two varibles

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What is a Two-Tailed Hypothesis?

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Where you think there will be a relationship, but you don’t know the direction of the relationship.

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What is Sampling..

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How you get people to take part in your study

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It takes too long to study everyone what can you do?

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Use a sample to be a representative of the population which can then be generalised back

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What is the population?

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The group of people from whom the sample is drawn. Can only be generalised back to the target population.

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What is Opportunity Sampling?

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You take the sample from people who are available at the time of the study and fit the criteria you’re looking for

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Advantages of Opportunity Sampling?

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  • Easy to do
  • Cheap
  • Quick
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Disadvantages of Opportunity Sampling ?

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Sample is not representative which reduces the generalisability of it as not everyone is there

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What is Random Sampling?

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Involves identifying everyone in the target population and then selecting the number of participants you need in a way that gives everyone an equal chance of being picked.

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Advantages of Random Sampling

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Representative (everyone has a chance increases Generalisability)

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Disadvantages of Random Sampling

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  • Time consuming to do
  • Expensive
  • People may not want to take part
  • No control over who is selected (freak sample)
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What is Self-Selecting Sampling?

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Participants become part of the study because they volunteered when asked or in response to an advert

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Advantages of Self-Selecting Sampling

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  • Less likely to drop out (given informed consent)
  • Quicker
  • Cheap
  • Easy
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Disadvantages of Self-Selecting Sampling

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Sample is less representative as you’ve only got people who volunteered (reduces generalisability)

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What is Snowball Sampling ?

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For hard to reach groups. People ask other people to take part- people who know each other

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Advantages of Snowball Sampling

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Helps gather hard to reach groups

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Disadvantages of Snowball Sampling

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  • Not representative ( as its people they know)
  • Word might not get around
  • Time consuming
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Formulating aims and hypotheses - Research aim and question

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A general research area you want to investigate, can be investigating a difference or similarity.

If you are writing an aim in an exam, begin the sentence with “ To investigate…”

eg. to investigate the relationship between the height and length that people can jump in the long jump

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Formulating aims and hypotheses - Hypothesis

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  • A statement of what you think you will find in your study
  • Needs to be clear, testable, precise and operationalised
  • If doing experiment = Experimental Hypothesis
  • If doing any other thing = Alternative Hypothesis
  • Hypotheses will either look for a difference between variables or relationship
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Formulating aims and hypotheses - Null hypotheses

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  • The hypothesis that says there will be no difference between conditions
  • Every piece of research has a null hypothesis
  • Researchers should aim to support the null hypothesis to avoid researcher bias
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Formulating aims and hypotheses - Directional/One tailed Hypothesis

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When you say what the direction of the effect will be.

Eg, Men will throw MORE punches than women

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Formulating aims and hypotheses - Non-directional/ two-tailed Hypothesis

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When you do not mention what direction the effect will be.

Eg there will be a difference in the number of punches men throw and women throw

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Target population
The whole group you want to study
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Representativeness
This is whether the sample reflects the target population
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Generalisability
Can the results from a study be applied to the target population?