Methodology Flashcards
Discuss the application and validity of content analysis
Application is limited as only states relationship and not cause and it is eco valid due to media and communications being up to date but has culture bias as cultural interpretation
3 r of animal research
Replace
Reduce
Refine and decrease suffering
Type one error
Type two error
Too lax 10%
Too harsh 1%
Discuss longitudinal with strengths and weakness
Retrospective is when you bring similar people together and trace back to find similarities
Prospective is when you randomly put group and look at them from that point onwards
Uses triangulation and is eco valid
But ppt attrition and time consuming with cohort effect too
Strength and weakness of cross sectional
Cheap and ethical as only one point in time
Lacks detail and validity and open to individual differences
Evaluate meta analysis
Good as statistical analysis with reliability and consistent result
Doesn’t use unpublished studies so there is publication bias