Research Designs

Question 1

Confounds

Answer 1

Factors that undermine the ability to draw casual inferences from an experiment

Question 2

Correlation

Answer 2

Measures the associatin between two variables, if how they go together

Question 3

Dependent variable

Answer 3

Variable that researchers measure but does not manipulate in an experiment

Question 4

Experimenter expectations

Answer 4

When the experimenter’s expectations influence the outcome of a study

Question 5

Independent variable

Answer 5

Variable that researchers manipulate and control in an experienced

Question 6

Longitudinal study

Answer 6

A study that follows the same group of individuals over time

Question 7

Operational definitions

Answer 7

How researchers specifically measure a concept

Question 8

Participant demand

Answer 8

When participants behave in a way that they think the experimenter wants them to behave

Question 9

Placebo effect

Answer 9

When receiving special treatment ot something new affects human behaviour

Question 10

Quansi-experimental design

Answer 10

An experiement that does not require random assignment to conditions

Question 11

Random assignment

Answer 11

Assigning participants to recieve different conditions of an experiment by chance

Question 12

Research designs

Answer 12

Qualitative, correlational experiments, quasi-experimental

Question 13

Qualitative design

Answer 13

Participant observation
Case study
Narrative analysis

Question 14

Participant observation

Answer 14

Trying to study groups of people other than your own
Spend time with them and learn about them
Not used as much now

Question 15

Case study

Answer 15

Therapeutic setting or group dynamics
Describe topic in much better detail
Issue is they focus on one and doesnt prove anything

Question 16

Narrative analysis

Answer 16

Used by people studying racism
How people’s behaviour changes in environment they grew up in
How people behave and how they talk

Question 17

Correlational design

Answer 17

Measured 2 variables and your accessing if someone’s score on one variable will impace other
- correlation coefficient

Question 18

Experiment

Answer 18

Figure out what is causing changes in a and b

Question 19

Sampling

Answer 19

Get few peoole to do test and then apply study to population
- 21% people in uni im population, get 21% uni grad to study
Need 1000 people to get accurate sample

Question 20

Variable

Answer 20

Quality it characteristics of a person or situation thst can vary from person to person or situation to situation
- hair colour, height, age
Not variable
- people who have black hair

Question 21

Independent variable

Answer 21

What you are manipulating

Question 22

Dependent variable

Answer 22

Effect that happened later

Question 23

Measuring variables

Answer 23

Self report
Other report
Overt report
Physiological measures

Question 24

Self report

Answer 24

Simplest way to find variable
Ask people

Question 25

Other report

Answer 25

Ask different person about person’s behaviour

Question 26

Overt report

Answer 26

Watch people and monitor their behaviour