Research Methods and Statistics

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Decks in this class (12)

Week 1 Lectures (Good research practice)
What are the stages of the resear...,
What is a theory,
What is a hypothesis
35  cards
Week 1 reading
What is empiricism,
What is publicly verifiable knowl...,
What is a peer review
9  cards
Week 2 Lectures (human/animal behaviour)
What is the general form of a sta...,
What are 2 characteristics of a mean,
What is the equation of a mean
19  cards
week 3 SCM (confounds and control)
What is the concept of overfittin...,
How do you calculate the variance,
What is sample variance
12  cards
week 2 PTTR (validity and reliability of measures)
How do you assess the reliability...,
What is a concept with an indirec...,
What are researchers two basic ca...
30  cards
week 3 PTTR (confounds)
What are the 4 basic elements of ...,
What are two characteristics of c...,
What are 3 methods for controllin...
12  cards
week 4 PTTR (manipulation and control)
What is a descriptive research st...,
What is an experimental research ...,
What is a quasi experimental rese...
6  cards
week 4 SCM (sampling and linear equations)
What does the standard error of t...,
What is the sampling distribution...,
Do larger samples yield smaller o...
4  cards
week 5 SCM (confidence intervals)
What does a confidence interval d...,
What does it tell you if the conf...,
How to calculate the confidence i...
9  cards
week 6 PTTR (validity and random assignment)
What is external validity,
What are three types of generalis...,
What is internal validity
15  cards
week 6 SCM (t-tests)
What is the difference between de...,
What does quantitative statistics do,
What is the difference between a ...
9  cards
week 7 PTTR (within subjects)
0  cards

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