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What is a covert observation? And give one weakness and one strength

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When the participants dont know they are being watched/ studied

  • strength= stops demand characteristics
  • weakness= breaks ethical guideless and hard to do without the researcher being a participant
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What is an overt observation? And give one weakness and one strength

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When the participant does know that they are being watched/studied

  • strength= solves the ethical issues of a covert
  • weakness= can lead to demand characteristics
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What is event sampling and give one limitation and one strength

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Event sampling is creating a list of behaviours and everytime this behaviour happens you note it down

  • strength= it gives a total value of behaviour
  • weakness= it doesnt give times when the behaviour was noted
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What is time sampling and give one weakness and one strength

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Time sampling is recording behaviours present at set time intervals (eg every 1 min)

  • strength= it gives a pattern of data over time
  • weakness= doesnt give a total value of behaviour
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When would you use a chi squared statistical test?

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When we have nominal data and test of difference and an unrelated design or when we have nominal data testing association or correlation

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When would you uae a mann whitney test?

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Wheh we have ordinal data , testing differences and an unrelated design

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When do you use an unrelated t-test?

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When you have interval data , testing a dufference and an unrelated design

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When do you use a sign test?

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When we have nominal data , a test of difference and a related design

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When do you use a wilcoxon test ?

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When we have ordinal data , testing a difference , with a related design

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When do you use a related t-test ?

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When we have interval data , testing a difference and a related design

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What measure of central tendancy do we use for nominal data ?

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The mode

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What measure of central tendancy do we use for ordinal data ?

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The median

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What measure of central tendancy do we use for interval data ?

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The mean

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What is nominal data ?

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Set categories eg hair colour

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What is ordinal data ?

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Uses rankings eg 1st , 2nd

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What is interval data?

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Numbers , could a decimal but never 0 , eg IQ

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What is the independant variable ?

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What we are changing

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What is the dependant variable ?

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What we are measuring

19
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What are extraneous variables?

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Extra variables that may affect the outcome

20
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What type of hypothesis is one tailed ?

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A directional hypothesis, “ will increase/ decrease”

21
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What type of hypothesis is two tailed ?

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A non directional hypothesis , “ will gave an effect”

22
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What is a null hypothesis?

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Where you predicted there will be no effect

23
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What is a lab experiment?

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A controlled environment

24
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What is a field experiment?

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A lab experiment but in natural setting

25
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What is a natural experiment?

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A natural setting with a naturalky occuring IV

26
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What is a Quassi experiment?

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Where the researxher cannot randomly assigned participants , or manipulate/ control the IV

27
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What is qualitive data ?

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Words

28
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What is quantitative data ?

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Numbers

29
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What is a thematic analysis ?

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Emphasises identifiying, analysing and interpreting patterns of meaning within qualitative data ( words)

30
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A correlation coefficient of -1 is what ?

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A strong negative correlation

31
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A correlation coefficient of +1 is what ?

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A strong positive correlation

32
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A correlation coefficient of 0 is what ?

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No correlation

33
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What causes a negative skew ?

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Low value outliers , so the mean moves to the left

34
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What causes a positive skew ?

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High value outliers , so the mean moves to the right

35
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Uses these values to decide what type of skew we will have:
Mean= 11
Median= 7
Mode= 6

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Must be a positive skew as the mean is the largest

36
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Uses these values to decide what type of skew we will have:
Mean= 4
Median= 8
Mode= 13

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Must be a negative skew as the mean is the smallest

37
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What is a case study?

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An in-depth investigation, description and analysis of a single individal , group or event

38
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What is content analysis?

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An indirect study of behaviour by examining communications that people produce eg in texts or emails

39
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What is external validity?

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The extent to which you can generalise the findings of a study to the wider population/other people

40
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What is internal validity ?

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How reliable the study is , are thr effects observed due to manipulation of the IV or othet factors eg demand characteristics

41
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When would you use a spearmans rho test ?

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When you have ordinal data and a test or association or correlation

42
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When would you use a pearsons r ?

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When you have interval data , and a test of association or correlation

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