Lecture 2 Flashcards

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What is Intersectionality ?

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Analytic approaches that consider the meaning and consequences of multiple categories of social group member

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What is social postioning ?

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Describes an individual’s world view and the position they adopt about a research task and its social and political context

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What is reflexivity ?

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Notion that researchers affect the research they’re doing

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What is a hypotheses ?

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Something that can be tested in research

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What is a hypothetical construct ?

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term for abstract concepts like “empathy” and “prejudice”

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What are operational definitions ?

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Concrete representations of hypothetical contructs that allow researchers to observe those contructs indirectly rather than directly

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What are predictions ?

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Restate hypotheses in terms of operational definitions

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What is reliability ?

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Its consistency in providing essentially the same result each time it is used with the same person

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What is validity ?

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Refers to its accuracy

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What are self-report measures ?

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Asking people about their attitudes, opinions, and behaviours and then recording what they say

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What are unobstrusive methods ?

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They give the impression that they have nothing to do with prejudice or that they are unrelated to the research study taking place

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What are implicit cognition measures ?

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Assess the degree to which concepts are associated with one another in memory

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What is the correlation research strategy ?

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Researchers measure 2 or more variables and look for relationship among them

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What is survey research ?

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Respondants answer questions designed to assess their attitudes, beliefs, opinions, behaviours, and personality traits

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What is sampling ?

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How researchers find people to answer their questions

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What is probability sampling ?

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Researchers first define thier research population, which consists of people whom the researchers want to apply their results

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What is convinience sampling ?

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Based on respondents from whom the researchers can easily collect data

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What is the experimental research strategy ?

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The researchers take control of the research to ensure that the 3 criteria for casuality are met

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What is meta-analysis ?

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A research method that statistically combines the results of multiple studies to determine the avergae relationship b/w the variables across those studies