Research Methods

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Decks in this class (10)

Chapter 1: Psychology Is A Way Of Thinking
Producer,
Consumer,
Do practicing psychologists engag...
42  cards
Chapter 2: Sources Of Information: Evaluating, Finding, and Reading Information
What are the three sources if evi...,
One should not base beliefs solel...,
What the heck is a comparison gro...
70  cards
Chapter 3 Three Claims, Four Validities: Interrogation Tools For Consumers Of Research
What are the three claims,
What do claims do,
What is a variable
47  cards
Chapter 4: Ethical Guidelines For Psychology Research
What are the three kinds of ethic...,
What were the two sources of ethi...,
What does the term debriefed mean
90  cards
Chapter 5: Identifying Good Measurement
What are three ways psychologists...,
What is operationalization,
Two ways a variable can be expressed
55  cards
Chapter 6: Describing What People Do: Surveys, Observations and Sampling
What are some ways survey and pol...,
Open ended questions l advantages...,
Forced choice format l ex
48  cards
Chapter 7: Bivariate Correlational Research
What are bivariate associations v...,
What is an association claim,
To investigate associations resea...
58  cards
Chapter 8: Multivariate Correlational Research
What are three techniques that re...,
Longitudinal designs allow us to,
Multiple regression designs help ...
49  cards
Chapter 9: Introduction to Simple Experiments
What does an experiment mean,
A variable is manipulated when th...,
Measured variables take the form ...
74  cards
Chapter 10: More on Experiments- Confounding and Obscuring Variables
One group pretest posttest design,
What are six threats to internal ...,
Maturation threats
63  cards

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