Flashcards in #Research Methods Deck (25):
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What does the Independent variable mean
The thing that we are in control of and change
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What is the dependant variable
Is the thing that we measure the results of the experiments
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What is operationalisation
When we say how we observe more complex or abstract things such as the intelligence or aggression levels of something
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What is an alternative hypothesis
Where you make a prediction of how the IV will affect the DV
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Null hypothesis
This is where you make the prediction that the IV will not affect the DV
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What are the two types of alternative hypothesis
One tailed and two tailed
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What is a one tailed hypothesis in comparison to a two tailed hypothesis
A concrete prediction of what will happen whereas two tailed suggests that there will be a change but there isn’t certainty of what it will be
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What is an extraneous variable
Anything other then the IV which affects the DV
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what is a lab experiment
standardized procedure
high IV
low EV
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what is a field experiment
opposite to lab experiment, it is naturalistic
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what is a case study
indepth look at a person or a small group eg genie
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what is a covert experiment
person is in the study but doesn't say ie confederate in milgrams study
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what is an overt experiment
researcher tells participants they are in a controlled experiement
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difference between participant and non participant
non p= fly on wall
ppt= involved in study
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what is a plot study
like a practice study to test out any possible issues
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what is a content analysis
looking at prescence of certain words, quantifying the amount of them and analyzing them.
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what are the 4 sampling techniques
random
startified
volunteer
opportunity
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what is a random sampling
every member of the target population has an equal chance
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what is stratified sampling
breaking population into sub categories and selecting participants in accordance with the population
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what is a volunteer sample
self selected, those who chose to be there
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what is an opportunity sample
asking ppts available at the time
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what are the three types of reserach design
independant measures
repeated measures
matched pairs
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what is independent measures
different groups for each condition of the independant variable
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what is repeated measures
same participants each time for each different condition
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