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Psychology: Research Methods

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By: Jessica Mccaffery
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Decks in this class (15)

Types of data
What is quantitative data 1,
What are the three types of quant...,
What is nominal data 3
24  cards
Central Tendency
What is central tendency 1,
How do you calculate a mean 2,
How do you calculate a median 3
13  cards
Ethics
What are the 4 ethical principals 1,
What does respect mean 2,
What does competence mean 3
9  cards
Experiments
What is an independent variable 1,
What is a dependent variable 2,
What is operationalisation 3
19  cards
Sampling
What is a target population 1,
What is a study population 2,
What is volunteer self selected s...
14  cards
Standard Deviation
What are the steps to finding sta...,
What does standard deviation tell...,
What does a positive skew show 3
5  cards
Thematic Analysis
What type of data does thematic a...,
What does thematic analysis analy...,
What are the steps to thematic an...
8  cards
Correlation
What is correlation 1,
What type of data does correlatio...,
What type of graph is used for a ...
9  cards
Interviews
What is a structured interview 1,
What is a semi structured intervi...,
What is an unstructured interview 3
13  cards
Research Designs
What is independent measures 1,
What is an advantage of independe...,
What is a weakness of independent...
10  cards
Mann Whitney U Test
What do statistical tests show 1,
What is a p value 2,
What does it mean if a value is s...
9  cards
Brain Scans
What is pet scan used to look at 1,
What is a fmri scan used to look ...,
What is a cat scan used to look at 3
15  cards
Animal Ethics
What are the 7 animal research gu...,
What are the 4 things in the anim...,
What does procedures mean 3
5  cards
Observations
What is a non experimental method 1,
What does naturalistic mean what ...,
What does structured mean what is...
10  cards
Content Analysis
What is content analysis 1,
How do you do content analysis 2,
What is latent content 3
6  cards

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