wk4

Question 1

Sample

Answer 1

The participants we test

Question 2

Population of interest

Answer 2

where the sample comes from. this can be well defined and more specific or loosely defined and less specific

Question 3

probability sampling

Answer 3

I remember of the population of interest should have an equal chance of taking part

Question 4

probability: Systematic

Answer 4

Sample every Nth person

Question 5

probability: Stratified

Answer 5

Subdivided into groups and then sample

Question 6

Convenience sample

Answer 6

Available volunteering participants

Question 7

Snowball sampling

Answer 7

Participants recruit other participants

Question 8

Weird participants

Answer 8

Western
educated
industrialised
rich
democratic societies

Question 9

experimenter bias

Answer 9

behaviour that presents a fair test of the hypothesis. for example smiling and nodding, being more encouraging in certain conditions

Question 10

Blinding

Answer 10

minimising the extent to which participants can guess the aims.

Question 11

double-blind

Answer 11

both the experimenter on the participant do not know the aims
this helps minimise subliminal or unconscious effects

Question 12

standardisation

Answer 12

participants should have as near as identical experience as possible. this minimises the possibility of extraneous variables

Question 13

pilot studies

Answer 13

The experiment is run with a small number of test participants first. spot potential issues