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Decks in this class (23)

Experimental Methods
What s the independent variable,
What s the dependent variable,
What are extraneous variables
22  cards
Observational Techniques
4 types of ways psychologists can...,
What is non participant observation,
Non participant observation pros ...
21  cards
Self-Report Techniques
What are self report techniques,
What is a structured interview,
Pros cons of structured interviews
9  cards
Correlations
What is a correlation,
What does a positive correlation ...,
What does a negative correlation ...
8  cards
Aims and Hypotheses
What is an aim,
What is operationalisation,
What are the types of hypotheses 4
7  cards
Sampling Techniques
What is a target population,
What do samples need to be to be ...,
What is random sampling
21  cards
Experimental Design
What are the three main experimen...,
What happens in an independent gr...,
What happens in a repeated measur...
10  cards
Control Of Variables
What is social desirability bias,
What are experimenter effects,
What are investigator researcher ...
11  cards
Ethical Issues BPS (british psychological society)
What are the 5 ethical issues,
What is active vs passive deception,
What are the 4 principles all res...
12  cards
Peer Review
What is peer review,
What are the 3 main purposes of p...,
What are 2 other purposes of peer...
5  cards
Psychological Research Vs The Economy
What two pieces of research can b...,
Why was the research into the rol...,
Why is the development of mental ...
4  cards
Types Of Data
What is qualitative data,
Advantage of qualitative data,
What is quantitative data
12  cards
Descriptive Data
Pros and cons of the mean,
Pros cons of the median,
Mode
10  cards
Data Distribution
Normal distribution features,
Pos skew,
Neg skew
6  cards
The Sign Test
What are the 2 kinds of statistics,
What are descriptive statistics,
What are inferential statistics
7  cards
Coding + Content And Thematic Analysis
What is content analysis,
What does content analysis help do,
Why is content analysis helpful w...
14  cards
Case Studies
Purpose of a case study,
Does the way research was conduct...,
Examples of case studies
5  cards
Assessing And Improving Reliability
Reliability is a measure of,
How can you test if a tool is rel...,
Test retest method what happens a...
11  cards
Assessing And Improving Validity
What is validity,
What is internal validity,
What is external validity
14  cards
Psychology As A Science
What is science,
Key features of science,
What is objectivity
20  cards
Reporting Psychologist Investigations
General points about writing psyc...,
Stages in writing a psychological...,
What s the point of the title
26  cards
Analysis And Interpretation Of Correlations & Correlation Coefficients
What are co variables,
Strength of diff correlations mea...,
Drawing a scattergram isn t enoug...
6  cards
Probability & Signifcance And Errors
What s a type 1 error,
What s a type two error,
P 001 meaning
5  cards

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