Hypotheses

Question 1

What is an aim?

Answer 1

A general statement made to describe the purpose of an investigation

Question 2

What is a hypothesis?

Answer 2

A statement that is made at the start of the study and states the relationship between two variables as stated by the theory

Question 3

What is an alternative hypothesis?

Answer 3

This is where there is a statistical significance between conditions

Question 4

What is a null hypothesis?

Answer 4

This is where there is no statistical significance between conditions

Question 5

What is a directional hypothesis?

Answer 5

This is where the researcher specifies the difference between conditions

Question 6

What is a non-directional hypothesis?

Answer 6

This is where the researcher doesn’t specify the difference between conditions

Question 7

Steps to writing a good hypothesis(correlation)

Answer 7

Use the word correlation
Null Hypothesis: No correlation between co-variables
Non-Directional: There is a correlation between co-variables
Directional: Need to specify direction of correlation in co-variables

Question 8

Steps to writing a good hypothesis(experiment)

Answer 8

Use the word difference
Operationalise both variables
Null: No difference in DV between condition 1 and 2
Non-Directional: There is a difference between condition 1 and 2 but not specified
Directional: Condition 1 obtained a directional difference than condition 2