Psych Higher Terms

Question 1

Quantitate data definition

Answer 1

numerical data

Question 2

Quantitative data advantages

Answer 2

objective, fast to analyse, easy to replicate

Question 3

Stratified sampling

Answer 3

participants are proportionally representative of the real life group (e.g. half men half women), the composition of the sample reflects the proportions of people within the target population

Question 4

Reliability

Answer 4

Consistency, get the same results twice, ease of replication

Question 5

Internal validity

Answer 5

extent to which the results come from the IV affecting the DV, testing what is wanted to test, results not due to other factors

Question 6

External validity

Answer 6

extent to which results can be generalised outside of the setting of the study

Question 7

IV

Answer 7

Independent variable, manipulated variable

Question 8

DV

Answer 8

dependant variable, measured variable

Question 9

Random selection

Answer 9

All members of the population have an equal chance of being selected

Question 10

Opportunity Sampling

Answer 10

When researchers simply decide to select anyone who happens to be willing and available to do their study

Question 11

Systematic sampling

Answer 11

When every nth member of the target population is selected

Question 12

Snowball sampling

Answer 12

Researcher relies on one participant in hopes that they will find others to join the sample and they will find more and more etc

Question 13

Volunteer sampling

Answer 13

Involves participants selecting themselves to be part of the sample i.e. self-selection

Question 14

Purposive sampling

Answer 14

Involves selecting a sample based on characteristics of a population and the objective of the study