Research Methods Key Words

Question 1

Closed questions?

Answer 1

Questions were there are fixed choices of responses (e.g yes/no)

Question 2

Covert observation?

Answer 2

Participants are unaware their behaviour is being watched.

Question 3

Demand charachteristics?

Answer 3

When participants try to make sense of the research situation they are in and try to guess the purpose of the research or try to present themselves in a good way.

Question 4

What are extrenous variables

Answer 4

Any variable that may affect the dependant variable.

Question 5

Confounding variable?

Answer 5

Type of extraneous variable but the key feature is that the confounding variable varies systematically with the IV.

Question 6

Investigator effects?

Answer 6

When the participant reacts to the researchers behaviour.

Question 7

What is a directional hypothesis?

Answer 7

A one-tailed hypothesis that states the direction of the difference or relationship