Non-Experimental Methods - quick test Flashcards
What is a way of sampling behaviour in an observation where it is coded every time it is seen?
Event sampling
What is a sampling technique where participants volunteer themselves for the research?
Self-selecting
What is usually not obtained when conducting observations?
Consent
What is a way of sampling behaviour in an observation where it is coded at certain intervals, e.g. every 30 seconds?
Time sampling
What is it difficult to control in observations?
Confounding variables
What is an example of an ethical issue?
Deception
What is the type of study where a participant is studied over a long period of time?
Case study
What is the type of correlation where both variables increase with one another?
Positive
What problem can observations suffer from, due to the fact that they can be interpreted in a biased way?
Subjective
What is the type of correlation where as one variable increases, the other one decreases?
Negative
What do observations have a lot of?
Ecological validity
What sampling technique is though to be the most representative of a target population?
Random
What is it difficult to do with data from a case study?
Generalise
What can we not establish using correlations?
Cause and effect
More often than not, what kind of data is collected from an interview?
Qualitative
