Research Methods Flashcards
Orne (1962)
Demand characteristics are “cues that convey the experimental hypothesis to the (participant)” and determine behaviour.
Rosenthal (1966)
Male researchers were more pleasant and friendly with female participants than they were with male participants.
Epstein and Lasagna (1969)
Only 1/3 of participants really understood what they were signing up for.
Baumrind (1985)
Deception is morally wrong because:
- Right to informed consent
- Obligation of researchers to protect welfare
- Responsibility of researchers to be trustworthy
Baumrind (1959)
Cost-benefit analysis is useless as it exchanges one set of ethical issues for another.
Mackintosh (1995)
Cyril Burt (1955, 1966) was dishonest in his research.
John et al. (2012)
70% of psychologists said they’d cut corners and 1% admitted to fabricating their data and findings.
Smith (1999)
“Peer review is slow, expensive… highly subjective… easily abused, poor at detecting gross defects and almost useless at detecting fraud.”
Ritchie et al. (2012)
Replications of studies (to check the original study) aren’t published.
Horton (2000)
Peer review preserves the status quo even if new evidence is found.
Brooks (2010)
Members of Parliament still used debunked research.
Tversky and Kahneman (1986)
Framing effect: how you frame a question affects how it is answered.
Layard (2014)
Kahneman’s work on irrational thinking transformed business.
McCrone et al. (2008)
Cost of mental health in England is around £22.5 billion
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Medication is much better economically.
Popper (1934)
Falsification principle
