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Heuristic Influence

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is involved when theories or research results in create interest, disbelieve or antagonism, and give rise to new research questions

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Systematic influence

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is involved when theories or research propose new, testable research questionsfor future research

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applied research

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focusses on solving practicalproblems

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fundamental research

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aims to increase scientific knowledge with no pracical goal in mind

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translational research

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combines fundamental and applied research

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Behavioural Variable

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any observable response an organism makes

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Stimulus Variable

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specific features that make up the context in which behaviour occurs and possibly have effects on the organisms response, e.g. alcohol or a wet street on driving performance

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Organismic Variable

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features of the participants by which they can be classified (e.g. sex, age which arre observable organismic variables, or e.g. intelligence which is a construct, thus these are called indirectly observed varriables

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Independent Variable

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an actively manipulated variable by the researcher. non-manipulated independent variables are those wich cannot be manipulated ( eye colour, gender, age)

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Dependent Variable

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variable whose value is probably dependent on the manipulation of the independent variable

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Confounding Variable

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unplanned, uncontrolled factors that might influence the results, the researcher should avoid or actively controll confounding variables

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Constant Variables

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specific situations or traits that can not have an effect on the study, because it kept constant (invariable over the participants) cosntant variables cannot be manipulated, only controlled (researchers can not change gender, but can select only males or females)

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Validity

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relates to the extent to which a study, procedure or instrument truly measures what it aims to measure

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The Belmont Report

  1. Beneficence
  2. Autonomy
  3. Justice
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report stating ethical principles required in human research. 1. risks for participants are minimized rewards for both, participants and society are maximized

  1. appropriate information so the participants can truly decide if they want to participate
  2. risks and rewards have to be equally distributed over all members of the population
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Deception

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giving of misleading information (e.g. for the sake of the study) = risks for participants, therefore protection procedure has to be in place

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Debriefing

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a way to deal with deception by explaining the aim of the study and revealing the true nature of the deception

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Confidentiality

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required from the researcher (e.g. participants are given a number therefore no violation of privacy can occur)

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Institutional Review Boards (IRB)

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consist of researchers and community members, they judge researches on the ethical principles

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Participants Diversity

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refers to representaions of different groups ( woman, Men, Children, ethnic groups, cultures) woman, children and ethnic minorities are under-representated