Research Methods Key Terms

Question 1

Aim

Answer 1

Purpose of study, what are you trying to find out

Question 2

Bar graph

Answer 2

Displays quantitative data, bars of various lengths with gaps between, displaying categories and establishing cause and effect relationships

Question 3

Demand characteristics

Answer 3

Participants not behaving naturally, instead according to or against aim

Question 4

Dependent variable

Answer 4

Measuring, tightly controlled positivist studies

Question 5

Ecological validity

Answer 5

Natural setting and task?

Question 6

Ethical guidelines

Answer 6

Informed consent, debriefing

Question 7

Experimenter effects

Answer 7

Ecperinnter present affecting findings

Question 8

Extraneous variables

Answer 8

Environment, potential to affect findings

Question 9

Generalisability

Answer 9

Representative of target population?

Question 10

Hypothesis

Answer 10

Prediction of what think will happen

Question 11

Independent variable

Answer 11

Changing/manipulating

Question 12

Objectivity

Answer 12

No interpretation bias , quantitative

Question 13

Operationalisation

Answer 13

Hypotheses or research ail borken down into co create things that can be measured, key words defined

Question 14

Pilot study

Answer 14

Small scale dress rehearsal, sub sample, checks validity

Question 15

Qualitative

Answer 15

In words, rich and in depth