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#psychology year 1/ Issues and debates > #Research Methods > Flashcards

#Research Methods Flashcards

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What does the Independent variable mean

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The thing that we are in control of and change

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What is the dependant variable

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Is the thing that we measure the results of the experiments

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What is operationalisation

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When we say how we observe more complex or abstract things such as the intelligence or aggression levels of something

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What is an alternative hypothesis

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Where you make a prediction of how the IV will affect the DV

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Null hypothesis

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This is where you make the prediction that the IV will not affect the DV

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What are the two types of alternative hypothesis

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One tailed and two tailed

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What is a one tailed hypothesis in comparison to a two tailed hypothesis

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A concrete prediction of what will happen whereas two tailed suggests that there will be a change but there isn’t certainty of what it will be

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What is an extraneous variable

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Anything other then the IV which affects the DV

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what is a lab experiment

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standardized procedure
high IV
low EV

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what is a field experiment

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opposite to lab experiment, it is naturalistic

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what is a case study

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indepth look at a person or a small group eg genie

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what is a covert experiment

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person is in the study but doesn’t say ie confederate in milgrams study

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what is an overt experiment

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researcher tells participants they are in a controlled experiement

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difference between participant and non participant

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non p= fly on wall

ppt= involved in study

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what is a plot study

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like a practice study to test out any possible issues

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what is a content analysis

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looking at prescence of certain words, quantifying the amount of them and analyzing them.

17
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what are the 4 sampling techniques

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random
startified
volunteer
opportunity

18
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what is a random sampling

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every member of the target population has an equal chance

19
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what is stratified sampling

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breaking population into sub categories and selecting participants in accordance with the population

20
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what is a volunteer sample

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self selected, those who chose to be there

21
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what is an opportunity sample

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asking ppts available at the time

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what are the three types of reserach design

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independant measures
repeated measures
matched pairs

23
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what is independent measures

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different groups for each condition of the independant variable

24
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what is repeated measures

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same participants each time for each different condition

25
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what is matched pairs

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participants matched on certain characteristics and put into seperate conditions

26
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type 1 error

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rejecting null hypothesis

27
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type 2 error

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not rejecting null hypothesis

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