Evaluating Research/ Studies/ Methods Flashcards
What does each letter stand for in GRAVE?
GENERALISABILITY
RELIABILITY
APPLICATION (and implication to real life)
VALIDITY
ETHICS
What is generalisability?
Consider information about the participants used in the study are they representative to wider society
Use the sample details to provide evidence for this evaluation questions
What are the generalisability points?
How representative is the sample?
Ethnocentric
Androcentric
sampling techniques used
Bias sample
What is reliability?
How consistent are the research findings? evidence of standardisation
Use examples from a procedure for standardisation
Compare the findings to other research studies
What are the application and implication to real life?
How have the results been useful/contributed to society?
Who is the results and task in the procedure to help support for the study is or isn’t useful?
What are the reliability point
Has it got a standardised procedure?
Consider how extraneous variables that we kept consistent
Is there any evidence of other types of reliability like interrater/test retest?
What do other research findings suggest about the behaviour being studied, agree or disagree
What are the application implications for real life points?
How do you the results provide solutions in society?
What specific examples are there in society to demonstrate the contribution psychologists have made
Did the results explain events that have occurred and find causes for problems
Do you the results harm society or social groups?
Implications how can the results be used her more control society?
Negative social control
What is validity?
What the results and findings of the study accurate
Use examples from the procedure to provide evidence for the evaluation questions
What are the validity points?
Internal validity
size of the sample
Operationalise DV was it an accurate measurement?
Control over, extraneous, variable
Any evidence of confounding variables
Demand characteristics/experimenter bias
Objectivity versus subjectivity
Experimental design
External validity
Mundane, realism,
temporal validity
What are ethics
What are the ethical considerations in the study was it justified?
Use examples from the procedure and results to provide evidence for the evaluation questions
What are the ethics points?
Evidence of ethics followed
Evidence of ethics, broken
If followed did they impact validity
If broken, was it justifiable?
If the study was unethical How could this affect reliability?
Cost versus benefit analysis
