Steps In Designing & Implementing Psychological Research Flashcards

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Number 2 doing psych

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Discovering what influences how individuals feel, think, behave

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Number 3 doing psych

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Determining the consequences of how ppl feel, think, behave (manipulation, experimental design)

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Number 4 of doing psych

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Exploring ppl perspectives and meanings they attach to things (qualitative data, interview)

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Number 5 of doing psych

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Examining how ideas events and things are represented in language and made sense of (discourse analysis approach, interviews etc)

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Research involves

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Asking questions and making predictions. Gathering data. Generating explanations

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Epistemology is

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Theory of knowledge

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Two types of epistemological frameworks:

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Positivism

Empiricism

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Positivism is the

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The belief that there is an objective and knowable world

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Empiricism

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Gathering knowledge via the senses. Or facts from experience.

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Hypothetico-deductivism

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Deductive…using the scientific method to reduce to supporting a hypothesis prediction. Not actually proving a theory but gathering support for it

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What is the 1st in the 5 criteria that apply to the statement of a hypothesis?

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  1. Stated on declarative form (declaring something)
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2nd criteria for a hypothesis

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  1. Posits a relationship (usually casual) between variables
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Number three of required criteria of a hypothesis

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Reflects theory or body of literature

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Number 4 & 5 criteria of a hypothesis

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Brief

Testable

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IV is

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What we manipulate

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DV

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Influenced by the IV and what we measure

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In True experiments levels of the IV are determined by the

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Conclusions of true research are

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Change of the IV CAUSES A CHANGE IN THE DV

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In quasi-experiments levels of the IV variable are

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Conclusion of quasi-experiments

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IV is related to the DV

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Where we don’t have random assignment we have a

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Quasi-experiment. Ie movies and experts (pre-existing groups)

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Directional hypotheses are the most

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Powerful but we need more research backing for these

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What are the 4 types of measurement?

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Nominal
Ordinal
Interval
Ratio

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To operationalise our variable it means…

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How we are going to turn them into numbers

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Non parametric tests are
Nominal ordinal
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Parametric tests are
Interval ratio
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Nominal is
Categorical - have no set rank order (can be numbers)
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Ordinal is
Categories rank ordered low - high | How much difference there is btwn categories cannot be measured!
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Interval is
Categories ranked from low to high in meaningful way. Amount of diff btwn categories can be specified Ie IQ
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Ratio is
Scales -start at 0 | Ie age and income
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Which level of measurement is best
Ratio - provides no solid info
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What is probability sampling
Liklihood of any one member of pop being selected is known
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Non-probability sampling
The likelihood of selecting any one member from the pop is not known
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What are the 4 types of probability sampling?
Simple random sampling Systematic sampling Stratified sampling Cluster sampling
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What is 1 of the five tasks involved in doing psychology?
Examining how individuals feel, think and behave (observation)