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Cultural Relativism

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Are the findings specific to a particular culture?

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Demand Characteristics

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How far do participants respond to the demand of the situation?

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Deterministic

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Do the results suggest that everything will happen in a set way?

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Dispositional Factors

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How far are the results affected by personality/individual factors?

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Ecological Validity

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How far does the experiment reflect real life?

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Ethics

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How far are the BPS/APS code of ethics upheld? If not, why not?

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Experimental Design

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What design is used? How good/poor is it?

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Experimenter Bias

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Does the experimenter view the results biased to the aim?

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External Validity

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How artificial is the experiment?

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Freewill

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Opposite of deterministic. Is the participant able to exercise choice?

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Generalisation

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How far can we apply the findings to the human race?

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Holistic

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How far does the study deal with the whole and not just parts?

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Individual Differences

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How do people differ from each other? (e.g. by personality, experience, nature, nurture)

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Internal Validity

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How far do participants believe in the situation?

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Limited Application

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How far are the findings limited? (e.g. by gender, culture)

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Methodology

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Are there any issues with the methodology? Use of control?

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Qualitative Data

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Non-numerical data. Words, open responses etc.

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Quantitative Data

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Numerical data. Numbers, scales, closed responses etc.

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Reductionist

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How far are the results explained by a single factor?

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Reliability

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Can the study be repeated? How consistent is the measuring device?

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Sample

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Sampling device? Size and makeup?

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Situational Factors

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How far are the results affected by the situation?

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Temporal Validity

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Is a study only applicable to the time it was carried out?

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Usefulness

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Are the findings useful? Do they create a starting point?

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Validity

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Is a study measuring what it sets out to measure?

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