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Recap of Introductory research methods

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What are the 2 types of data analysis?

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Quantitative methods & Qualitative methods

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Testing theories using numbers

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Quantitative methods

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Testing theories using behavior/ language

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Qualitative methods

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The research process

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data-Initial observation (research question)-generate theory-generate hypotheses-identify variables-collect data and test theory-measure variables-analyse data-graph data-fit to model

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What are the 2 types of measurement

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Categorical & Continuous

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Entities are divided into distinct categories

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Categorical

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Entities get a distinct score

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Continuous

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Discrepancy between the actual value we’re trying to measure, and the number we use to represent the value

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Measurement error

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Approaches to design

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Non-experimental research, Experimental research,

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Observe what naturally goes on in the world without directly interfering with it.

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Non-experimental research

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One or more variable is systematically manipulated to see their effect (alone or in combination with) on an outcome variable

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Experimental research

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Allows us to make statements about cause and effect

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Experimental research

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What are the 2 experimental designs?

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Independent & Repeated-mesures

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Between-group/subjects is what experimental design?

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Independent

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Within-subjects is what kind of experimental design?

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Repeated measures.

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Different entities in experimental conditions

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Between-group/ subjects.

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The same entities take part in all experimental conditions

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Within-subjects

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First two steps of data ana?

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Explore and describe

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mean

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average score in your data

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The middle score of an ordered set

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Median

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most frequent score

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Mode

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What is the typical score called?

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Central tendency

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symmetrical distribution is when…

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The mean, mode and median are roughly the same.

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skewed distribution is when…

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mean, median and mode are different

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what are the different modes you can have in the same variable.
bimodal and multimodal
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A graph plotting values of observations on the horizontal axis, with a bar showing how many times each value occurred in the data set
Histogram
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normal distribution is
bell-shaped and symmetrical around the centre
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properties of frequency distribution
skew and kurtosis
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symmetry of distri bution
skew
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Frequent scores are clustered at lower end with the tail pointing towards high values ie tail point to positive
Positive skew
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Frequent scores clustered at higher end with tail pointing toward low values, ie tail points to negative.
Negative skew
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Degree to which scores cluster in the tails.
Kurtosis
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____means there is a positve kutosis, ie >0 distribution is too peaked.
Leptokurtic
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____means there is negative kurtosis, ie <0 distribution is too flat
Platykurtic
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when we desire a normal distribution
Normality
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what are the two types of variance
parametric and categorical
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Standard deviation, range
Parametric
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how to check for normality of a histogram
is it bell-shaped, is the distribution symmetrical?
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standard deviation is nonsense so use a ratio
Categorical
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how to check normality of mean, median and mode?
are they roughly equal
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how to check normality of trimmed mean
is the mean similar if you drop the top and bottom 5% of scores?
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how to check for normality of skewness and kurtosis
when divided by standard error is it =0
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how to check for normality
Histogram, mean median, mode, trimmed mean, skewness and kurtosis outliers.
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how do I check for outliers.
box plot
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how to screen multiple variables
homoscedasticity and heteroscedasticity
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___are a form of standardization
Z-score
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The most frequently occurring score in a variable is the....
Mode
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A histogram shows that data in your variable has two "peaks' rather than a single bell-shape. This is indication of a...
bimodal distribution
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A histogram shows that data in your variable is bell-shaped and symmetrical around the center. this is indication of a....
Normal distribution.
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When screening the relationship between two variable, scores in a scatterplot tend to be related similarly at low and high values. this is a sign of...
Homoscedasticity
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The relationship between two variables seesm to differ at different points in the scatterplot. (e.g) this is a sign of...
heteroscedasticity
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A histogram shows that data in your variable is mostly clustered at the high end of values. This is indication of a…
Negative skew
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Most of your scores are not dramatically higher or lower than the mean. This would be indicative of…
low standard deviation
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A histogram shows that data in your variable has five ‘peaks’ rather than a single bell-shape. This is indication of a…
multimodal distribution
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Values vary quite dramatically either side of the mean. This would be indicative of…
high standard deviation
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A histogram shows that data in your variable is mostly clustered at the low end of values. This is indication of a…
positive skew
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measuring the extent to which two variables are related and measures the pattern of responses actoss two variables.
Correlation
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The middle score in an ordered set of data is the…
median
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Assesses the linear relationship between continuous variables.
Correlation.
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Assumptions of correlation
Linerarity, normality, continuous variables, homoscedasticity.
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Possibilty of a third variable.
Tertium quid
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Measures the relationship between two variables, controlling for the effect that a third variable has on them
Partial correlation
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Measures the relationship between two variables controlling for the effect that a third variable has on only one of the others.
semi-partial correlation.
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Its important to ____ _____ ____ because * Reports the magnitude * There may be a relationship but it might not mean much.
measuring affect size
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As the value of one variable increases, the value of the other variable also increases.
Positive correlation.
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As the value of on variable increases the value of the other variable decreases
Negative correlation.
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strength of the correlation is the R value not the P value. T or F
True
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When looking at effect size the R is...
Pearsons product-moment correlation coefficient.
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when r is +.1 = small effect, .3 = medium effect and .5 large effect . t or f
true
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r2 is....
Coefficient of determination.
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by ___ the value of r you get the amount of variance in one variable that is shared by the other
squaring.
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test the significance of the difference between means
t-tests
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compares two means based on related data e.g. data from the same people measured at different times or data from matched samples.
dependent or paired samples t-tests
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compares two means based on independent data e.g. data from different groups of people
Independent-samples t-test.
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what are the assumptions for t-tests
normally distributed scored on the DV and variability of scores on the DV is similar for the two categories of IV
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