social psychology methods Flashcards
1
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how are thoughts/feelings/behaviours measured?
A
- self-report: questionnaires
- laboratory
- explicit methods: assess conscious thoughts
- implicit: assess outside conscious control
2
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implicit measures
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- influence how easy it is to retrieve a schema
- highly accessible schemas are more likely to influence cog processes and behaviour
- implicit association test
- priming
- lexical decision task
3
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implicit association test
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- p.s. categorise 2 types of stimuli using 2 buttons
- overweight vs healthy weight silhouettes and good vs bad words
- congruent categorisation: quick response
- incongruent: match good words with obesity - slower responses indicate stronger attitudes
4
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priming
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- presentation of stimulus unconsciously increases accessibility of related cognitions/schemas and influences behaviour/cognitions
- e.g. present attractive or unnatractive face for 13ms, shown word ‘laughter’ and asked if it is positive or negative - faster response when shown attractive face
5
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lexical decision task
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assesses accessibility of cognitions
- shown letters and judge whether they form a word or not - words, non-words, target words
- critical trials: target words are presented that reflect the cognitions of interest
- interested in reaction time it takes to access the target words - faster when primed
6
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randomised control trial
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reduces allocation bias - each p.s. has equal chance of being in intervention vs control
7
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narrative reviews
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- provide overview of current knowledge on broad general topic
- no new analysis
8
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systematic reviews
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- reviews evidence for well defined and precise research question
- intro, method, results, discussion
- method details have strict inclusion/exclusion criteria
9
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meta-analysis
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- same as systematic but quantifies overall effect found across all studies
- assess magnitude of effects to show overall effect
- often presented with systematic review
10
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what does WEIRD stand for?
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-western
-educated
-industrialised
-rich
-democracies
this is what research is limited to
