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psychology: research methods

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Decks in this class (14)

Types of data
What is quantitative data,
What are the three types of quant...,
What is nominal data
24  cards
Central Tendency
What is central tendency,
How do you calculate a mean,
How do you calculate a median
13  cards
Ethics
What are the 4 ethical principels,
What does respect mean,
What does competence mean
9  cards
Experiments
What is an independent variable,
What is a dependent variable,
What is operationalisation
19  cards
Sampling
What is a target population,
What is a study population,
What is volunteer self selected s...
14  cards
Standard Deviation
What are the steps to finding sta...,
What does standard deviation tell us,
What does a positive skew show
5  cards
Thematic Analysis
What type of data does thematic a...,
What does themtic analysis analyse,
What are the steps to thematic an...
8  cards
Correlation
What is correlation,
What type of data does correlatio...,
What type of graph is used for a ...
9  cards
Interviews
What is a structured interview,
What is a semi structured interview,
What is an unst
13  cards
Research Designs
What is independent measures,
What is an advantage of independe...,
What is a weakness of independent...
10  cards
Mann Whitney U Test
What do statistical tests show,
What is a p value,
What does it mean if a value is s...
9  cards
Brain Scans
What is pet scan used to look at,
What is a fmri scan used to look at,
What is a cat scan used to look at
15  cards
Animal Ethics
What are the 7 animal research gu...,
What are the 4 things in the anim...,
What does procedures mean
5  cards
Observations
What is a non experimental method,
What does naturalistic mean what ...,
What does structured mean what is...
10  cards

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