Resarch Methods

Question 0

Interviews evaluation

Answer 0

Strengths:can be flexible, can tackle sensitive topics
Weaknesses: lots of time, effort and money, limit on responses

Question 1

Interview

Answer 1

Face to face questions to produce qual data, questions may be decided on the spot

Question 2

Opportunity sampling

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Selecting participants because of their ability

Question 3

Independent group design

Answer 3

Each participant selected from 1 group

Question 4

Matches pair designs

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2 desperate groups of people who are matched on a 1 to 1 basis-individual differences:(

Question 5

Repeated measure design

Answer 5

Same participants for both groups-might be order effects :( less concern for individual differences :)

Question 6

Volunteer sampling

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When participants volunteer to be part of the experiment

Question 7

Random sampling

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When every person has equal chance of being picked-coin toss, hat pick

Question 8

Case studies

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In depth study of a case usually taken from small group. Mainly gathered through obs and int,

Question 9

Case studies evaluation

Answer 9

Strengths:not much intervening and no demand characteristics
Weak:researcher doesn’t control experiment so they can lose control

Question 10

Protection from harm

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Participants should not experience greater degree of harm than they expected

Question 11

Field experiment

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Experiment done in everyday environments of the participants

Question 12

Field evaluation

Answer 12

:) reflects real life, less likelihood of demand characteristics
:( less control over extraneous variables so it’s hard to repeat

Question 13

Independent variable

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The variable you manipulate in order to effect the dv

Question 14

Natural experiment

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Experiments in natural environments

Question 15

Natural experiment evaluation

Answer 15

:) Reflects real life, less likely hood of demand characteristics
:( may be time consuming, no control over extraneous variables

Question 16

Right to withdraw

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Participants should be given the right to leave the experiment at any given time and have the right to withdraw their data

Question 17

Qual data

Answer 17

Data presented to describe in word form

Question 18

Deception

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Deceiving participant should be avoided to not infringe the rights of participant

Question 19

Lab experiment

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Experiment controlled in laboratory

Question 20

Lab experiment evaluation

Answer 20

:) easy to replicate and control IV’s

:( lacks mundane realism, demand characteristics

Question 21

Informal consent

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Participants should be able to know what the study is and give consent before they take part

Question 22

Privacy

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Participants identities should remain anonymous

Question 23

Dependent variable

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Variable you measure

Question 24

Observation

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When behaviour is observed and recorded with no attempt to influence behaviour

Question 25

Observation evaluation

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:) it can identify the correct hypothesis, it can see if lab findings apply outside a lab
:( lack of control, observer effects, hard to generalise

Question 26

Questionnaire

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Series of questions to gather info in certain areas

Question 27

Questionnaire evaluation

Answer 27

:) simple, quick, researchers don’t influence participants

:( misinterpretations, social desirability, bad response rate