Terms and research methods

Question 1

Qualitative vs quantitative data

Answer 1

Qualitative data is descriptive data eg the level of browns of chocolates where as qualitative data is about numbers eg how many pandas live in china.

Question 2

objective versus subjective.

Answer 2

objective data is when you don’t have an opinion about it whereas subjective is when you do.

Question 3

what are some ethical issues with school experiments

Answer 3

1. if we are doing a dissection is it fair that, that animal had to die so we could cut it up.

Question 4

what are the different types of sampling

Answer 4

1. convenience sampling the most accessible people.
2. random sampling everyone in the population has an equal chance of being picked.
3. stratified sampling first organised your population into groups then pick, people from the groups to make samples with the same ratio of the groups to the population.

Question 5

IV and DV

Answer 5

the IV is independent while the DV depends on the IV so that if the IV is changed the VD will be, but not the other way.

Question 6

Control versus experimental groups

Answer 6

control groups are the variables that you don’t change or measure while the experimental groups are the ones that are experiment and measured.

Question 7

Extraneous and confounding variables

Answer 7

extraneous variables are the ones that the experimenter didn’t account for, confounding variables are more IV’s that affect the DV for example order effects.

Question 8

​​​​​​​Experimenter Effect

Answer 8

what bias does the experiment have on the results, so the placebo but for experimenters. that’s why double blind experiments are a thing.