Research Methods Flashcards

Question

What is a Self Report method?

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A method which examines peoples opinions, feelings or own description of their behaviour.

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- Questionnaires - Interviews

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Open and Closed

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Questions for which there is a fixed choice of response that were determined by the question setter

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Are pre set

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Develops as the interview goes along.

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Is a relationship between two co variables for example height/weather.

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A scatter graph

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A numerical value gained from applying a statistical test to correlation data. It is a quantitative value between -1 and +1.

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An in depth study that gathers a lot of detail about one person or a small group. It uses a range of resources and many techniques.

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A form of observations but instead of people their communications are studied instead.

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behavioural categories

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thematic analysis

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- Deception - Informed consent - Privacy - Confidentiality - Protection From Harm

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Not publishing work

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Participants should remain anonymous so that data cannot be identified as theirs

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- Self Selected - Systematic - Random - Stratified - Opportunity

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Placing an advert and waiting on participants to respond to take part

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Creating a list of all target population members and then selecting every Nth on the list

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Putting all target population names into a hat and then pulling out however many are required for the sample

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Selecting a sample that is proportional to the target population.

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Using whoever is available at the time of testing

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The level of agreement in scores on a measure between different raters or observers rating the same target

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The consistency of scores for the same person across two or more separate administrations of the same measurement.

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- Train observers in the observation techniques - Ensuring behavioural categories

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A way of ensuring validity by examining a measure to make sure that it appears to measure the thing it is claiming to measure

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A way of ensuring validity by making sure that the test /measure of behaviour is as valid as another which measures the same thing

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The extent to which findings and conclusions from experiments can be broadly applied to the population because the sample of participants is representative.

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Whether findings from the study can be generalised to other settings over time and to other people.

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Whether the results cannot be generalised to any other settings because the experimental setting the participants had was too artificial and did not reflect real life

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This is concerned with whether the results of an older study still apply today in modern times.

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Extent to which a test measures what it set out to test and is uninfluenced by outside variables.

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A measure of central tendency making use of all the data

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A spread of data

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Spread of data around the mean

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- Social desirability bias - Demand characteristics - Extraneous/confounding variables - Investigator effects

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A tendency for respondents to answer questions in such a way that presents themselves in a better light

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Any clue from the researcher or from the research situation that may be interpreted by participants as revealing the purpose of the investigation. This may lead to a participant changing their behaviour within the research situation

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Any variable other than the independent variable that may have affected the dependent variable so we cannot be sure of the true source of changes to the dependent variable

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Any effect of the investigator's behaviour on the research outcomes. This may invade everything from the decision of the study to the selection of and interaction with participants during the research process.

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