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RELIABILITY/ VALIDITY
What is validity 1,
What is internal validity 2,
What is external validity 3
24  cards
EXTRANEOUS VARIABLES
Blank 1,
What are extraneous variables 2,
What are participant variables 3
7  cards
TYPES OF EXPERIMENT
What is a laboratory experiment 1,
What is a field experiment 2,
What is a quasi experiment 3
4  cards
TERMINOLOGY
What is random allocation 1,
What are control groups 2
2  cards
AIMS/ HYPOTHESES
What is a research aim 1,
What is a hypothesis 2,
What is a null hypothesis 3
9  cards
EXPERIMENTAL DESIGNS
What are order effects 1,
What are demand characteristics 2,
What are participant variables 3
13  cards
SAMPLING METHODS
What is volunteer sampling 1,
What is systematic sampling 2,
What is opportunity sampling 3
27  cards
CONTROL MEASURES
What are the four types of extran...,
What do controls allow a research...,
What does this allow us to say 3
26  cards
PILOT STUDIES
What is a pilot study 1,
What are pilot studies used to id...,
What is the floor effect and why ...
5  cards
Self-report methods
What are self report methods 1,
What is qualitative data 2,
What is quantitative data 3
52  cards
Observations
What are observations 1,
Are observations structured or un...,
What happens in structured obersv...
40  cards
Correlations
What is a correlation 1,
What is a correlation referred to...,
What types of variables are measu...
14  cards
Ethical issues in Research
What is ethics 1,
Why do ethical guidelines and pri...,
What do ethical guidelines help e...
33  cards

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