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Research Methods

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By: Mickey Scanlon
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Decks in this class (15)

Midterm
Four goals of scientific research,
Producer vs consumer,
Sources of research ideas
41  cards
Psychology as a way of Thinking
What are the four goals of scient...,
Someone who is involved in the re...,
Someone who reads about research ...
11  cards
Basics of Research
What are three reasons you might ...,
What are three typesof motivation...,
What are three types of cognitive...
16  cards
Claims and Validities
An attribute that varies having a...,
Something that could vary but onl...,
Variable whose levels are simply ...
30  cards
Ethics
Which organizations are involved ...,
What are the core principles of t...,
Researchers must take precautions...
29  cards
Measurement and Statistics
A set of statistics used to organ...,
A set of techniques that uses the...,
A measure of what value the indiv...
41  cards
Sampling
A set of observations that contai...,
A larger group from which a sampl...,
The group of people animals or ca...
18  cards
Basic Experiment
The variable which is changed or ...,
The result or outcome due to the ...,
Occurs in an experiment when the ...
19  cards
Surveys & Observations
A method of posing questions to p...,
What are five problems that occur...,
A survey question which asks two ...
40  cards
Issues with Experiments
What is a correlational design,
What does r represent,
What are some issues that impact ...
15  cards
Inferential Statistics
What are inferential statistics,
What is a null hypothesis,
What are the steps for drawing a ...
8  cards
More Complex Experiments
Designs with two or more independ...,
Simplest factorial design,
What is a 2 x 2 design
25  cards
Generalizability & Replication
To be important a study must be _...,
What is direct replication,
What is replication with extension
18  cards
Definitions
Method of posing questions to peo...,
Asking two questions in onedo you...,
A question which offers alternati...
100  cards
Final Exam Mock Questions
What is a frequency claim how man...,
What is an association claim how ...,
What is causal claim how many var...
84  cards

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