data handling and analysis

Question 1

what is qualitative data

Answer 1

non-numerical language-based data collected through interviews, open questions and content analysis

Question 2

what is quantitive data

Answer 2

numerical data that can be statistically analysed.

Question 3

what is primary data

Answer 3

Data that has been generated by the researcher himself/herself, surveys, interviews, experiments, specially designed for understanding and solving the research problem at hand.

Question 4

what is secondary data

Answer 4

information that someone else has collected e.g. the work of other psychologists that has been published in journals or government statistics.

Question 5

what is meta analysis

Answer 5

an objective examination of published data from many studies of the same research topic identified through a literature search.

Question 6

what is standard deviation

Answer 6

a measure of dispersion or scatter in a data set relative to the data’s central mean value. For example, if the IQ’s of some group have a standard deviation of 10, most of the group will have an IQ within approximately 10 points of the mean.

Question 7

what is a correlational analysis

Answer 7

statistical method that is used to discover if there is a relationship between two variables/datasets, and how strong that relationship may be

Question 8

what are the advantages of correlational analysis

Answer 8

can provide evidence for a potential causal relationship between two variables.

Question 9

what are the disadvantages of correlational analysis

Answer 9

inability to establish causality, potential for confounding variables, and reliance on statistical relationships.

Question 10

what will a negative skew of data show

Answer 10

data will be clustered to the right

Question 11

what will a positive skew of data show

Answer 11

data will be clustered to the left