Aims, Hypotheses, Variables

Question 1

What is an Aim?

Answer 1

What you are hoping to find out

Question 2

IV?

Answer 2

Variable the researcher manipulates to have an effect on the DV

Question 3

DV?

Answer 3

Thing that is being measured

Question 4

What is operationalising

Answer 4

How you will define and measure a specific variable as it is used in your study

Question 5

What is an experimental hypothesis

Answer 5

A prediction of what will happen “there will be a difference between…”

Question 6

What is a Null hypothesis?

Answer 6

A prediction that nothing will happen: “there will be no difference between…”

Question 7

What is a one tailed/ directional hypothesis

Answer 7

A hypothesis that predicts the direction of the results eg “women will be better than men”

Question 8

What is a two-tailed/ non-directional hypothesis?

Answer 8

A hypothesis that doesn’t predict the direction things will go in “there will be a different between men and women”

Question 9

What is an extraneous variable

Answer 9

Variables that if not controlled may affect the DV and provide a false impression that an IV has produced change when it hasn’t

Question 10

What is a confounding variable

Answer 10

An extraneous variable that has affected the IV so we cannot be sure of the true source of the change to the DV