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Case studies

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Observes the behavior of an individual or small group of people in a unique situation

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Naturalistic observation

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Watching people in their natural environment

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Laboratory observation

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Watching people in a lab

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Psychological tests

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personality, disposition, etc

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Experiments

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Using a tightly controlled environment to establish a cause and effect relationship between two variables

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Inductive apporach

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Begin with observation and then form a theory

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Non participant observation

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The researcher is not part of the group

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Overt participation/Participant observation

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The researcher becomes part of the group

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Covert participation

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Participants do not know they are being researched

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Reactivity

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Participants change their behavior in reaction to being observed

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Inter-observer reliabilty

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Multiple researchers compare notes to ensure something really happened

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Surveys

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A way of collecting information from a large and dispersed group of people

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Structured interviews

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Highly controlled and interview schedule is set

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Semi-structured interviews

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Informal but does follow a schedule; open and closed questions

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Unstructured interview

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Interview schedule specifies time and topic only

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Social desirability bias

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People try to present a positive picture of themselves, may not always tell the truth

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Participant bias

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When people adjust their answers to what they think is appropriate for the interviewer

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Interviewer effects

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Responses to sex, age or ethnicity of interviewer

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Aim

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Purpose of the study

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Procedure

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Step by step process used by the researcher

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Findings

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How the researcher interpreted the data

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Ecological validity

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The study represents what happened in real life

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Cross-cultural validity

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the research is relevant to other cultures and not just based on the values and beliefs of one culture

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Reliability

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The study is reliable if the results can be replicated

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Target population

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The specific group of people the psychologists are interested in studying

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Sample

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The group of actual participants in the study

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Representative sample

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A research sample that accurately represents the target population

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Participant variability

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The extent to which the participants may share a common trait that can bias the outcome of the study

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Sampling bias

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A variable in the sample group that can impact the outcome of the study

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Opportunity sampling

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Finding the most easily available and willing participants

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Self-selected sampling

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A group of participants who volunteered

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Snowball sampling

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Participants recruit other participants like friends and family

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Random sampling

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Every member of the target group has an equal chance of participating in the study

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Stratified sampling

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Drawing random samples from each subpopulation within the target population

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Corrolational studies

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Data collected to show a relationship between two variables

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Independent variable

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The manipulated variable

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Dependent variable

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The affected variable

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Operationalized

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When the dependent and independent variable are defined

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Experimental hypothesis

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A prediction of how the manipulation of the independent variable is expected to affect the dependent variable

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Experimental condition

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The group where the independent variable is manipulated

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Control condition

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The group where the independent variable is not manipulated

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Null hypothesis

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States that the independent variable will have no effect on the dependent variable

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Field experiments

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Take place in a natural environment but the variables are still manipulated

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Natural experiments

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Researchers have no control over the variables, but the variables are already there

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Confounding variables

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Undesirable variables that influence the relationship between the independent and dependent variables

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Demand characteristics/Hawthorne effects

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This is when participants act differently because they know they are part of an experiment

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Single-blind control

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The participants don’t know what the aim of the study is

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Artificiality

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When the situation is set up to be so unlikely that one has to wonder about ecological validity

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Researcher bias

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The expectations of the researcher influence him/her subconsciously or consciously in a way that she/he sees what she/he is looking for

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Double-blind control

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The participants do not know whether they are in the control or experimental group, neither do the researchers

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Deductive approach

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Begin with a theory and then test it with observations

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Negative correlation

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When one thing increases, the other decreases

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Quantitative research

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Based on quantity and measurable data

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Qaulitative research

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The value of the individual information

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Theory

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General principal offered to explain a phenomena

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Triangulation

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Using multiple research methods to investigate the same idea/theory

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ethnocentric

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Evaluating other people and other cultures according to the standards of one’s own culture

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