psychology research Flashcards

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self selecting

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when the person volunteers to take part

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opportunity

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when people who are available at the time are used in the study

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advantage of self-selecting sampling

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little effort, they come to you, participant happy and willing

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disadvantage of self-selecting sampling

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people may not want to take part, only certain type of people show up- not generalisable

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advantage of opportunity sampling

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easier, convenient

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disadvantage of opportunity sampling

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won’t have a large range of data- just the people around you, not generalisable

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independant variable

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the aspect being changed in the study

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dependant variable

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the aspect being measured in the study

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high level of controls

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where as much of the study as possible is kept the same for all participants

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advantage to conducting a study as a lab experiment

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controlled environment

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disadvantage to conducting a study as a lab experiment

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lack ecological validity

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11
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quantitive data

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when the data is in number format

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12
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qualitative data

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when the data is in written format

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one advantage to quantitive data

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more accurate, more reliable, easy to analyse and compare

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disadvantage to quantitive data

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not detailed

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15
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advantage to qualitative data

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more specific, lots of information

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disadvantage to qualitative data

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hard to compare