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Part 2: All Methods Booklet Flashcards

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Which inferential test should a researcher use to decide whether a correlation is significant?

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Spearman’s Rho test

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Reliability

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Whether something is consistent

The ability of a test or measurement to preform consistently over a number of occasions

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Name the two main types of reliability

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Internal
External

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Internal reliability
How checked

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How consistently a method measures with itself

Split half method

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External reliability
How checked

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How consistently a method measure over time or between people

Test retest or via inter rater reliability

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Split half method

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Involves splitting a test into two and having the same ps doing both half of the test

If two halves of the test provide similar results this would suggest that the test has internal reliability

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Test retest method

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Involves testing the same ps twice over a period of time in the same test

If the results are similar then that would suggest that the measuring device / test has external reliability

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Inter rater reliability
What tests
How

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External reliability in relation to interviews can also be assessed via inter rater reliability

Eg
If two researchers interviewing the same interviewee to produce approximately the same score then their scoring would have external reliability

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Observation and reliability

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Experimental method and reliability

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Validity

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Refers to whether something measures what it claims to measure

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Interval validity

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External validity

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Face validity

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Construct validity

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Concurrent validity

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Criterion validity

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Population validity

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Ecological validity

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20
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Name all types of validity

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21
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First 5 sections including subsections of a practical report

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22
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Last two sections of a practical report
Citing academic references

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Peer review

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Peer review process

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25
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The scientific process

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26
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Induction

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Deduction

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28
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Summary of induction and deduction

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Example of induction and deduction

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30
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Is psychology a science
Booklet intro

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31
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Cause and effect

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The IV variable affects the DV

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Hypothesis testing

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Where a test is performed to prove whether a statement / hypothesis is falsifiable or not - accept null hypothesis/ or not

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Manipulation of variables

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Changing the IV to see the effect on the DV (to suit the desired outcome of the research) ie critical verb in Loftus and Palmer
Can’t in quasi experiment

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Control and standardisation

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Reducing extraneous variables to confounding variables to make sure it is a fair test

Standardisation
Keeping things the same between experiments

35
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Quantifiable measurements

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Data measurements that are in the form of numbers / can be translated to numbers

36
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Falsification

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Prove that something is false

Accept that theory is not correct
Accept null hypothesis

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Replicability

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Repeat the research ie grant replica study
Future research test in another occasion

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Objectivity

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Not opinion based but evidence / facts based
Opposite of subjective

39
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How does psychology contribute to the success of the economy and society

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A Level Psychology Methods (7 decks)

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