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Grade 10, semester 1 Flashcards

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What is ordinal data?

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Ordinal data is data placed into an order however no standardised value for the difference from one score to the next exists.

EG: sample measurements of people’s height

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What is interval data

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Is numerical data and the difference between points standardised and equal. In interval data, the number of zero has value and is meaningful.

Eg: Temerature

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What is ratio data?

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Ratio data is numerical data and the difference between points is standardised and equal. To be considered ratio data, it must have a true zero value, meaning it is not possible to have negative values in ratio data.

EG. Heat

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What is Nominal data?

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Nominal data is named data which can be separated into discrete categories.

EG: eye colour, hair colour.

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What is a case study?

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A case study is an in-depth investigation into an individual, group, event or community. Typically, data is gathered from a range of methods (eg - interviews, observations ect.)

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What are the advantages and disadvantages of a case study?

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Advantages:

  • provides great detail.
  • good way to study rare conditions.
  • longitudinal data (can observe changes)
  • provides insight for further research.

Disadvantages:

  • difficult to replicate studies
  • sample size is small
  • phenomenons and patterns observed is not generalisable to general patients.
  • researcher bias (researchers own subjective feelings may influence results).
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What is a correlational design?

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A type of non-experimental design in which relationships are assessed the extent to which they are related.

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What are the disadvantages and advantages of correlational designs?

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Advantages:

  • Allows researchers to investigate naturally occurring relationships they may be unethical or Impractical to experiment.
  • Analyse large amounts of data

Disadvantages:

  • correlation doesn’t imply causation
  • does not provide reasoning for results
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What are the three types of observational methods?

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  1. Controlled observations
  2. Naturalistic observations
  3. Participant observations
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What are the advantages and disadvantages of controlled observation studies?

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Advantages:

  • easy to replicate experiment (good reliability)
  • experiment is quick therefore a large sample can be obtained resulting in findings being able to generalise to larger population.
  • data is easy to analyse as it is quantitative (numerical)
  • allow for control over extraneous and independent variables.

Disadvantages:
- Artificiality of the setting may produce unnatural behaviour that doesn’t reflect real life (lacks ecological validity) due to demand characteristics.

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What are the strengths and limitations of naturalistic observations method?

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Strengths:
- higher ecological validity

Limitations:

  • experiment may lack a unrepresentative sample
  • independent and extraneous variables cannot be controlled
  • great at describing behaviour but cannot explain it.
  • observer bias & effect
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What are the strengths and limitations of participant observation design?

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Limitations:

1. If researcher becomes too involved may cause observer bias.

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What are the types of experimental design?

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  • independent groups design
  • matched participants design
  • repeated measures
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What is the difference between a sample and population?

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A sample is a portion of subset of the population to represent an entire population.

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What is the difference between inferential and descriptive statistics?

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Descriptive statistics uses data to provide descriptions about a population through numerical calculations while inferential statistics makes inferences and predictions about a population based on a sample drawn from a population in question.

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What are disadvantages and advantages of the independent groups design?

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Advantage- eliminates order effect (factors such as boredom and fatigue)

Disadvantage - potential for error due to individuals difference between groups of participants.

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What are disadvantages and advantages of the repeated measures design?

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Advantage - eliminates potential differences between groups.
Disadvantage - order effect.

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What are disadvantages and advantages of the matched participants design?

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Advantages

  • eliminates extraneous variables of personal differences between groups.
  • eliminates order effect

Disadvantage

  • time consuming
  • expensive to conduct
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What eliminates the order effect?

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Counterbalancing is a technique in which can be implemented to eliminate order effects. This technique involves the sample being divided in half. Each half completes the conditions in reverse order.

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What is a self report study?

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A self report study is any test, measure or survey that relies on an individuals’ report on their own symptoms, behaviours, beliefs or attitudes.

21
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What is an interview?

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An interview is a self report study that involves an experimenter asking questions and recording them.

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What is the difference between a one tailed and two tailed t test?

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One tailed - tests for the statistical significance of a possibility of a relationship in one direction only. (Appropriate only when interested in one direction)

Two tailed - tests for both directions. (Appropriate when interested for testing both directions.)

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Define extraneous variables + provide examples

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Extraneous variables are variables other than the independent and dependent variable that have the potential to negatively affect the results of a study.

Eg: 
participant medical history 
Socioeconomic background 
Distractions
Sleep/nutrition
Effort
Study
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Define confounding variables

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Founding variables are variables other than the independent and dependent variables that, as a result of a lack of control, have impacted the results of a study.

25
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What is the duration of short term memory?

What are STM key aspects?

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0 to 18 seconds (according to Atkinson and Schiffrin)
Key aspects :
limited capacity - only 7+-2 items can be stored at a time
Limited duration - info can be lost easily due to distraction or pass of time
Encoding - visual or auditory information

26
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What was the multi-store model of memory?

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Multitasking-store Model of memory is theory proposed by Atkinson and Schriffrin in 1968 and suggests there are three stores including the sensory register, short term memory and long term memory.

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What is the duration of capacity of long term memory?

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According to Atkinson and Schiffrin, long term memory has unlimited capacity and duration.

28
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What are the 6 ethical guidelines?

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  1. Informed consent
  2. Debrief
  3. Protection of participants
  4. Deception
  5. Right to withdraw
  6. Consent
29
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Define Radom sampling + disadvantages and advantages

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Random sampling is a type of probability malign where everyone in the entire target population has an equal chance of being selected.
Disadvantage- difficult to achieve (effort, money, time)
Advantage- will represent target population and eliminate sampling bias.

30
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Define stratified sampling + disadvantages and advantage

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A sampling technique where the researcher divides or stratifies the target group into groups each representing a key characteristics.

Disadvantage - difficult (time, money, effort)
Advantage - highly representative of target population & generalisable

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Define opportunity sampling + disadvantage and advantage

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Opportunity sampling involves using participants from a target population that at available the time and are able to take the part. It’s based on convenience.

Disadvantage - may be biased
Advantage - Requires less time

32
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Define volunteer sampling + disadvantage and advantage

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Volunteer sampling is a technique where participants self-select to become apart of study.

Disadvantage - may be biased
Advantage - less time and effort

33
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Define reliability and its types

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Reliability refers to constant research and measuring tools.
Internal - the extent to which a measure is consistent within its self. (Split half method)
External - the extent to which one measure varies from one use to another (test-retest & inter-rater)

34
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Define split half method

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Measures the extent to which all parts of a test contribute equally to what is being measured.

35
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Define test-retest

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Involves giving the test to two groups of people on two occasions and then comparing their scores.

36
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Define inter-rater reliability

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Involves checking that different results test administrators (those rating the people who took the test performance) get similar results.

37
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Define parallel forms reliability

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Involves giving a different test instead of using the same test.

38
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Define internal consistency

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Involves using correlations between different items in the same test to determine whether the different items produce similar scores.

39
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Define validity

And it’s types

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The the extent to which the test measures what it claims to measure.
Internal - refers to whether the results of the study occur due to the manipulation of the independent variable (face & construct)

External - the extent to which the results of the study can be vernalised to other settings (concurrent & predictive)

40
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What is face validity

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Whether or not the test appears to measure what it aims to measure.

41
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Define construct validity

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Does the test relate to underlying theoretical concepts.

42
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Define predictive validity

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Whether or not the test predict later performance on a similar criteria.

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