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Experimental group.

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The group in an experiment that receives the variable being tested.

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Control group.

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Participants who the variable isn’t being given to

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Objectivity.

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Te fancy ti base judgments and interpretations on external data rather than subjective factor

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Subjectivity.

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Understanding that everyone has their own perspective and beliefs which can be communicated and influenced.

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Reliability: inter rater reliability.

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Measure of consistency and agreement between 2 or more daters/ observers in their assessments.

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Reliability: test score reliability.

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Test scores remain unchanged when measuring a stables individual characteristic on different occasions.

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Internal validity- construct validities.

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Extent to which or measure accurately assesses what it’s supposed to.

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Internal validity- concurrent validity.

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Degree in which the scores on a measurements are related to other scores on measurements that are valid.

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External validity- ecological validity.

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Measure of how test performance predicts behaviours in real world settings.

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External validity- mundane realism.

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Degree which materials and procedures involved in an experiment are similar to those in the real world.

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Temporal validity.

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External validity that refers to the validity of findings in relation to the progression of time.

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Generalisability.

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Extent to which the findings of a study can be applicable to other settings.

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Population validity.

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Can you reasonably generalise findings from your sample to a large group.

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Experimenter effects.

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Tendency on part of researcher to influence participant/ interpret data to receive result they seek to have.

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Demand characteristics.

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Cues that might indicate the study aims tos participants.

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Controlling extraneous variables.

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Measuring and accounting for them statistically to remove their effects on other variables.

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Confounding variables.

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Any influence effecting the relationship between IV and DV leading to inappropriate conclusion of cause.

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Counter balancing.

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Technique used to deal with order effects when using a repeated measure design.

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Randomisation.

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Process of randomly assigning experimental subjects to one of the groups.

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Order effects.

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participants responses in the various conditions are affected by the order of conditions to which they are exposed.

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Credibility.

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The believability of the information.

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Experimenter bias.

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Unintentional influence of the experimenters expectations, beliefs or preconceived notions on the outcome of a study/ research experiment.