variables Flashcards

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What is an experiment?

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a type of investigation in psychology that tries to study human behaviour in a scientific way
- researchers will manipulate factors to see how they affect human behaviour

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What is an independent variable?

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variables that are changed, manipulated by the researcher

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What is a dependent variable?

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-researcher is measuring and recording
-results of a psychological study

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What is an extraneous variable?

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-affect the results of the study
- they are unaccounted for and may ruin the validity of a piece of research

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What does it mean to operationalise variables?

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  • making the variables measurable and testable in research
    e.g. iv=older people and yonger people: operationalise by saying older people are 50+ and younger are 25-
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