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Part 3 Flashcards

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Research Design: An overview (EXPERIMENT)

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Before conducting a research the resercher has to think in the best way to:

  • Answer their research question
  • Reach their objective
  • Test their hypothesis
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What is a research design?

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The overall strategy that you choose is to integrate the different components of the study in a coherent and logical way.

Heildarstefnan sem þú velur til að samþætta mismunandi þætti námsins á samfelldan rökréttan hátt

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Describe Research design?

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A research design is a plan for answering a research question using empirical data.

  • What type of research and how will you do it
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Design research, decide on:

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  1. Your overall aims and approach
  2. Type of design you will use
  3. How you select a participant
    4 Your data collection method
  4. The procedure you follow
  5. Your data analysis strategy
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Quantitative and Qualitative Research Design

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Quantitative research: specific behavior that can be easily quantified.

Qualitative research: people behaving in natural settings and describing their world in their own words.

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Quantitative research

Objective - Sample - Data collection

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Objective: Quantify data and generalize result from a sample to understand the population of interest

Sample: Large and broad, statistically projectable

Data Collection: Standardized instrument, operation of variables

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Qualitative Research

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Objective: Understanding underlying reason or motivations
- provide insight into the problem

Sample: small and narrow, not statically projectable

Data Collection: Adapt to the situation, variables not defended in advanced

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Naturalistic observation (Tend to be qualitative)

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Objective: provide a complete and accurate picture of what occurred in the settings, rather than test hypothesis formed prior to the study

Method:
The researcher must keep detailed field notes that are, written on a regular basis, everything has been happened (at least once each day)

Issue:

  • Subjectivity
  • Ethical Problem
  • Time-consuming
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Systematic Observation (can be quantitative)

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Objective:
Careful observation of one or more specif behavior in a particular setting.

Method:
Coding system: decide which behavior are of interest, choose a setting in which the behavior can be observed, and how to codify.

Issue:
Equipment: not only pencel and paper
- Reactivity
- Reliability - At least two raters

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Quantitative research - Experimental design: what is their aim?

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Their goal of scientific psychology is to understand human behavior

  • To accurately describe its casual underpinning
  • To predict behavior
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Quantitative research - Experimental Design.

Aim of the experimental design?

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  • Cause-effect relationship between variables
  • Using predictive analytics
  • Having high internal validity
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Internal validity

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To see which study establishes a trustworthy cause and effect relationship between a treatment and an outcome.

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In a true experiment, we want to?

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  • We want to maximize the independent variance
  • Minimize error variance
  • Control external variable
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In large samples, outcomes predicted by chance have

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  • normal (Gaussian) distribution
    Described as “bell-shaped-curve”
  • The outcome is distributed around the means
  • Probability is smaller and further from means
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Variance is

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The amount that scores vary around the mean score

(Variance should be similar between the groups) = Homogeneity

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If variance is not similar between the groups

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It might affect the validity of the outcome.

  • Statistical significance is often based on how much the scores vary.
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EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN (MAXIMISE AND MINIMIZE WHAT?

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MAXIMIZE INDEPENDENT VARIANCE

AND MINIMIZE ERROR

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Variance that is similar between groups is also called?

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Homogeneity

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Experimental control -> Minimize error variance (LARGE HROUP OF PARTICIPANTS)

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  • Large group of participants
  • Suitable measuring instrument
  • Rigorous research planning
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Inductive

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Inferring general principles or rules from specific fast.

YOU BEGIN WITH DATA

EXAMPLE: In the summer, there are ducks in our pond. Therefore, summer will bring ducks to our pond.

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Experimental control - Controlling external variable

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  • Balancing design
  • Remove outliers
  • Assumption of normality
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Design of experiments (Balanced design vs unbalanced design)

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Balance design: has an equal number of observations for all possible level combinations

Unbalanced design: it has ab unequal number of observations.

Example: taste-test various cereal brands.
Balanced design: 30 boxes of each brand
Unbalanced design: 30 boxes of lucky charms, 28 boxes of cheerios, and 30 boxes of cinnamon crunch

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Experimental control - Controlling external variable (ASSUMPTION OF NORMALITY)

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The most common assumption for statistical analysis is the normality of data distribution (central limit theorem)

when there is NOT normal distribution, it is possible to fix it by applying statistical TRANSFORMATION. It changes the distribution by applying a mathematical function to each participant data value.

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Defining the experimental method

Cross-section studies vs Longitudinal study vs Cohort study

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Cross-section: Different groups of people are tested at the same time and their results are compared.

  • Quick to carry out
  • Easy to test the reliability of findings

Longitudinal study: the participant is studied over a long period of time
- Track development, - Monitor change over time

Cohort study: several groups are studied over a long period of time.

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Defining the experimental method (Within-subject vs between-subject)

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Within-subject: each participant takes part in all experimental method

Between-subject: each participant takes part in one experimental condition

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Experimental design (Random assignment to experimental conditions)

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Benefits of randomization:

  • eliminated to a selection of bias
  • Balance the group with respect to many known and unknown confounding or prognostic variables
  • the randomized experiment is essential for testing for efficacy of treatment (tilraun er nauðsynileg til að prófa virkni meðferðar)
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Quasi-Experimental Design

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  • When subjects cannot be randomly assigned to different treatment conditions
  • When the independent variable cannot be manipulated
  • no random assignment
  • no manipulation of IV’s
  • no control
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Aim of the Quasi-Experimental Design

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  • Analytical predictive objective
  • Impossibility to control confounding variables
  • Reduce internal validity (because extraneous variables are not held constant)
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Aim of the Quasi-Experimental Design

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  • Analytical predictive objective
  • Impossibility to control confounding variables
  • Reduce internal validity (because extraneous variables are not held constant)
E.g School A takes part in an after school tutoring program ("treatment" condition) and school B does not (control condition) 
Manipulated IV (tutoring program); no random assignment.
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Quasi-Experimental Design is sometimes called?

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Pre-Post intervention design is often used to evaluate the benefits of specific interventions.

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Single-subject design

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  • Begin with systematic observations of an individual’s behavior for several sessions before treatment is introduced
  • Known as baseline phase or pre-treatment phase

Purpose:
*Identify/describe the extent of a person’s problem (status of the target behavior in its naturally occurring existing state)

*Predict future behavior if intervention is NOT provided

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