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Variables
What is an independent variable 1,
What is a dependent variable 2,
What is an extraneous variable 3
5  cards
Aims and Hypotheses
What is an expeirment aim 1,
What is a hypothesis 2,
What are the three types of hypot...
3  cards
Pilot Studies
What is a pilot study 1,
What are pilot studies used for 2
2  cards
Experimental Design
What are experimental designs 1,
What are the three types of exper...,
What is the independent groups de...
13  cards
Sampling Methods
What is opportunity sampling 1,
What are the strengths of opportu...,
What are the weaknesses of opport...
16  cards
Ethics
What are the six types of ethical...,
How do you avoid issues with info...,
How do you avoid issues with dece...
8  cards
Materials
What are the three types of mater...,
What should standardised instruct...,
What should a debriefing statemen...
3  cards
Types of Experiments
What is experiment validity 1,
What is internal validity what fa...,
What is external validity what ar...
18  cards
Problems With Experiments
What are demand characteristics 1,
How are demand characteristics re...,
What is researcher bias investiga...
4  cards
Types of Observations
What are the strengths of observa...,
What are the weaknesses of observ...,
What are the 6 types of observati...
9  cards
Designing Observations
What is an unstructured observati...,
What is a structured observation 2,
What is the behavioural categorie...
5  cards
Self-Report Techniques
What are the strengths and weakne...,
What makes a strong questionnaire 2,
What are the two types of questio...
5  cards
Correlational Analysis
What is correlation 1,
What is a correlation coefficient...,
How is correlation shown on a gra...
3  cards
Meta Analysis and Systematic Review
What are the strengths of meta an...,
What is the weakness of meta anal...,
What is a systematic review 3
6  cards
Quantitive and Qualitative data
What is quantative data 1,
What is qualitative data 2,
What are the strengths of quantat...
6  cards
Primary and Secondary Data
What is primary data 1,
What is secondary data 2,
What are the strengths of primary...
5  cards
Level of Measurement
What is nominal data 1,
What are the strengths of nominal...,
What are the weaknesses of nomina...
10  cards
Measures of Central Tendency
What are the three measures of ce...,
What are the strengths and weakne...,
What are the strengths and weakne...
4  cards
Measures of Dispersion
What are the strengths and weakne...,
What do high low standard deviati...,
What are the strengths and weakne...
3  cards
Presentation of Quantitative Data
What is a raw data table 1,
What is a summary table 2,
What are discrete and continuous ...
3  cards
Data Distributions
What are the three types of distr...,
What are the characteristics of t...,
What percentage of data is within...
5  cards
Sections of a psychological report
What does an abstract list 1,
What are the three aspects of an ...,
What are the four aspects to a me...
10  cards
Stats testing
What is a type 1 error 1,
What is a type 2 error 2,
What are descriptive statistics 3
10  cards
Case studies
What are case studies what do the...,
What are the strengths of case st...,
What are the weaknesses of case s...
3  cards
Content analysis
What is content analysis 1,
What is thematic analysis 2,
What are the steps to content ana...
5  cards
Reliability
How do you check test retest reli...,
How do you test reliability of in...,
How is reliability improved 3
3  cards
Features of science
What are empirical methods what a...,
What is replicability 2,
What is falsifiability 3
6  cards

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