Practical Issues in Design Annd Implentation Of Research Flashcards
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What is it
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They are what the researcher has to think about in order to run a credible and acceptable study
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Social psych arguments
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- issues of social desirability and researcher bias when designing a questionnaire
- choosing a sampling technique that allows for generalisability
- writing questionnaire items that are clear and gathering the required data in a reliable and valid way
- recruiting participants for research
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Cognitive psych arguments
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- trying to control for all variables other than the independent variable, to see the effect on the dependant variable
- how to achieve validity when there is so much control (control will make it unnatural)
- how to measure memory: its about encoding, storage and retrieval which all appear to be different processes
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Learning theories arguments
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- doing research in psychology involves the use of animals and in practical terms it might not be possible to generalise the findings
- studying behaviour came about as a preference of behaviourists because of the difficulty of studying internal processing
- isolating behaviour to measure it is not easy given that behaviour is complex
