Week 4 Flashcards

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What is a sample?

A

The participants we use from our population of interest

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2
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what is population of interest?

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All possible members of a category that researchers may use in their sample

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what is probability sampling?

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When every member of the population of interest has an equal chance of taking part

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4
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What are the types of probability sampling? (2)

A

stratified sampling

Systematic sampling

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5
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What is stratified sampling? (2)

A

Sample selected so that Specified sub-groups will appear proportional to their size in their target population
Each sub-group cases are randomly selected

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what is systematic sampling?

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Sample selected by taking every nth case of a target population. Randomised when First nth is random

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7
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What is convenience sampling?

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Selecting participants that are easily available at the time to take part

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8
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what is snowballing sample?

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When participants are recruiting other participants

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9
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What are common ways of recruiting participants? (2)

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  • newspaper advertisement

- University departmental advertisements

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10
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What are common incentives used to recruit participants? (2)

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  • University course credits

- money or vouchers

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11
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What are the ethics we need to be mindful of when conducting a study?

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  • right to withdraw
  • informed consent
  • confidentiality
  • debrief
  • protection from harm
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12
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What’s the best way to gain informed consent?

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information sheets before they take part in the study

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13
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How can we keep participants confidential? (2)

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  • giving them codes or synonyms

- deleting any contact with them so that they cannot be traced

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14
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What are demand characteristics?

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characteristics or behaviours displayed by ppts who think they know what the researcher ‘demands’ from them

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15
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what is experimenter bias?

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When experimenters have unconscious or conscious bias that may affect the ppts and/or the data produced from the study making it an unfair test if the hypothesis

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16
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What is blinding?

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When the participants do not know the aim of a study

17
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what is double blind?

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when both the participants and the researchers do not know the aim of the study

18
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What is standardisation?

A

Keeping certain things the same for participants

19
Q

What are additional things that could be controlled to keep things standardised? (5)

A
  • An experimenter’s behaviour
  • How the experimenter is dressed
  • what room it occurs in
  • the wording of the instructions given
  • distractions
20
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What is an independent measures design?

A

Different participants in each condition

21
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what is a repeated measures design?

A

using the same participants for all comditions

22
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what is a matched’airs design?

A

Each condition js different participants matched on certain characteristics

23
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What is counterbalancing?

A

Reverse order of conditions for participants in each group

24
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What are pilot studies?

A

When the experiments are run in small group with ‘new’ participants to to find any flaws in the study before it’s conducted for real

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What are common things found in pilot studies? (4)
- unclear instructions - floor/ceiling effects - potential for practice/fatigue effects - potential for maturation/history effects
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What are the different types of control groups?
- active - passive - waitlist
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What is an active control group?
Participants do something that would have an effect but the researcher assume it does not
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What is a passive control group?
Participants do nothing meaningful in the tasks
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what is a waitlist control group?
Participants think that they are on a wait list to take part in a condition but have not done so yet
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What are practice trials?
Trials done before the test/experimental trials to get ppts used to the tasks/gain confidence