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Decks in this class (20)

Variables
What is an independent variable,
What is a dependant variable,
What are extraneous variables
4  cards
Research issues
What are demand characteristics,
What are investigator effects,
What is randomisation
4  cards
Pilot Studies And More
What are pilot studies,
What are control groups conditions,
What is a single blind
4  cards
Experimantal Designs
What is an independent group design,
What are positives of independent...,
What are negatives of independent...
9  cards
Types Of Experiments
What are lab experiments,
What are positives of lab experim...,
What are negatives of lab experim...
12  cards
Hypothesis
What is a hypothesis,
What does an operationalised hypo...,
What is a directional hypothesis
7  cards
Ethical Issues
What is deception,
What is debriefing,
Right to withdraw
6  cards
Types Of Data
What is qualitative data,
Evaluation of qualitative data,
What is quantitative data
12  cards
Psychological tests
Dri,
Dui,
Dro
8  cards
Peer Review
What is peer review,
What are the aims of peer review,
A03 protects quality of published...
6  cards
Significance testing
Significance,
Probability,
Calculated and critical values
7  cards
Presentation of quantitative data
Tables,
Bar charts,
Histogram
8  cards
Measures of dispersion
Range,
A03 easy to calculate,
A03 does not account for the dist...
6  cards
Measures of central tendency
Mean,
A03 sensitive measure,
A03 may be unrepresentative
9  cards
Self-Report design
Designing questionnaires writing ...,
Closed questions,
Ao3 easier to analyse
8  cards
Self-Report technique
Questionnaire,
A03 straightforward to analyse,
A03 response bias
11  cards
Observational Design
Behavioural categories,
A03 difficult to make clear and a...,
A03 dustbin categories
9  cards
Observational Technique
Observational technique,
A03 capture what people do,
Ao3 risk of observer bias
23  cards
Correlations
Correlation,
Scattergram,
Types of correlation
6  cards
Sampling
Population,
Sample,
Generalisation
19  cards

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