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Taboo List - Disadvantages Flashcards

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Participant Observations (-1)

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Content Analysis (-1)

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Questionnaire (-1)

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Correlational Study (-1)

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Case Studies (-1)

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Pilot Study (-1)

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Brain Scans (-1)

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Brain Scans (-2)

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PET Scans (-E)

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Very expensive, therefore not easily available.

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PET Scans (-I)

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The patient has to injected with radioactive substance, therefore can only be used a few times.

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CAT Scans (-R)

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Require more radiation than traditional x-rays; the more radiation used, the more detailed the scan is.

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CAT Scans (-S)

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CAT scans only provide structural information.

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MRI Scans (-1)

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MRI Scans (-2)

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Longitudinal Studies (-1)

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Longitudinal Studies (-2)

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Cross-Sectional Studies (-1)

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Cross-Sectional Studies (-2)

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Self-Report Techniques (-1)

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Self-Report Techniques (-2)

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Online Research (-1)

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Online Research (-2)

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Random Sampling (-P)

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Would need to have a list of all the people in the target population.

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Random Sampling (-T)

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Will need to contact all the people selected, which may take some time.

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Systematic Sampling (-F)

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Not truly unbiased unless you select the first number using a random method, and then select every nth term.

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Opportunity Sampling (-1)

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Opportunity Sampling (-2)

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Stratified Sampling (-1)

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Stratified Sampling (-2)

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Quota Sampling (-1)

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Quota Sampling (-2)

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Self-Selected Sampling (-1)

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Self-Selected Sampling (-2)

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Snowball Sampling (-C)

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The sample is not likely to be a good cross-section from the target population as it is friends of friends.

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Snowball Sampling (-2)

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Independent Groups Design (-I)

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The researcher lacks control of individual variables, meaning more extraneous and confounding variables could occur.

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Independent Groups Design (-P)

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Needs more participants than repeated measures to conduct the same research.

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Repeated Measures Design (-O)

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Order effects; the order of the conditions may affect the performance of the participants, e.g. practice effects, boredom effects or fatigue effects.

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Repeated Measures Design (-D)

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Demand characteristics; participants may try to guess the aim of the experiment, causing them to change their behaviour.

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Matched Pairs Design (-T)

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Very time consuming to find participants with matching key variables in the target population. It may not be possible to find enough matching pairs from the target population.

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Matched Pairs Design (-V)

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It is not possible to control all the variables, as people will still have individual differences.

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Bar Chart (-1)

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Pie Chart (-1)

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Line Graph (-1)

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Line Graph (-2)

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Scatter Graph (-1)

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Scatter Graph (-2)

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Histogram (-1)

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Histogram (-2)

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Mean (-1)

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Cannot be used with nominal data nor does it make sense to use when you have discrete values as in average number of legs.

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Mean (-E)

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Can be easily distorted by extreme values.

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Median (-1)

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Median (-2)

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Mode (-1)

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Mode (-2)

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Not a useful way of describing data when there are several modes.

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Standard Deviation (-H)

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May hide some of the characteristics of the data set.

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Standard Deviation (-C)

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May be difficult to calculate without a calculator.

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Range (-D)

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Fails to take the distribution of the numbers into account .

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Range (-E)

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Easily affected by extreme values.

A Level Psychology - Research Methods (3 decks)

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