Unit 2: Research Methods Flashcards
Convenience Sample
use anyone who is readily available and who consents to participate
Representative Sample
strive to ensure that, collectively, their participants resemble the entire population of people who are of interest
Volunteer Bias
of the people invited to participate, those who do participate may differ from those who don’t
Correlations
describe patterns in which change in one event is accompanied to some degree by change in another
Experiments
provide straightforward information about causes and their effects because experimenters create and control the conditions they study
Self-Reports
ask people about their experiences
can be obtained through written questionnaires, verbal interviews, or even diaries
Social Desirability Bias
distortion that results from people’s wishes to make good impressions on others
Ecological Momentary Assessment
uses intermittent, short periods of observation to capture samples of behavior in real time as they actually occur
Reactivity
people may change their behavior when they know they are being observed
Archives
stores of data collected by other researchers
Open Science
research materials and data are shared with other scientists who wish to replicate one’s work
Meta-Analyses
studies that statistically combine the results from several prior studies
