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Variables
What is an independent variable,
What is a dependent variable,
What is an extraneous variable
6  cards
Experiments and hypothesis
What are the 6 ethical guidelines,
What are the 5 steps of the scien...,
What is a hypothesis
13  cards
Experimental methods
What are the 4 experimental methods,
What is a laboratory experiment,
What is a field experiment
13  cards
Designs
What is an independent groups design,
What is repeated measures design,
What is matched pairs design
13  cards
Sampling
What is opportunity sampling,
What is volunteer sampling,
What is random sampling
5  cards
Mean, mode, median
What is a mean,
What is a median,
What is a mode
5  cards
Reliability
What is reliability,
What is test retest,
What is inter observer reliability
5  cards
Validity
What is internal validity,
What is face validity,
What is concurrent validity
5  cards
Self-reports
Why do we use self reports,
What are the strengths of a self ...,
What are the limitations of a sel...
19  cards
Levels of measurement
What are the 3 levels of measurement,
What is nominal data,
What is ordinal data
4  cards
Significance level
How do you see if our result is s...,
How,
In psychology what percentage do ...
6  cards
Inferential tests
Why are statistical tests used in...,
What do statistical tests for cor...,
What is a one tailed hypothesis
15  cards
Features of science
What are the 5 key features of sc...,
What is a paradigm,
What is pre science
16  cards
Reporting
What are the features of a scient...,
What is an abstract,
What is an introduction
12  cards

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