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Research Methods Psychology

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By: Zainab Jaffery
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Decks in this class (18)

Structure of Studies
How are psychological studies structured?
14  cards
Reliablity and Validity
What are they? What is the difference? And how can we use them when evaluating?
14  cards
Ethics and the BPS guidlines
What ethics according to the British Psychological Society guidlines are needed in psychological studies?
11  cards
Sampling Methods
How we select participants for a study (tehniques + evaluations)
17  cards
Psychology as a science
What is theory construction 1,
What is falsifiability 2,
What is induction in theory const...
9  cards
Self Report techniques
A term where a participant needs to give info about themsleves!
21  cards
Types of data
DIFF BETWEEN QUALTIATIVE/QUANTIATIVE, AND PRIMARY/SECONDARY + EVALUATE THEM!!
14  cards
Analysing Quantitative Data
Central Tedency and measures of dispersion! Also anaylysing graphs...
13  cards
Analysing Qualitative Data
Anylysing +thematic analysis
6  cards
Type of experiments!
what kind (lab/quasi/field)
9  cards
Type of experimental Design
type of experiments design (independent measures, repeated measures, matched pairs)
10  cards
Case Studies
What is a case study 1,
Where did the case study method o...,
What kinds of data are collected ...
9  cards
Controls in research
Extrensous/confounding cariable, situational/participant, + more terms
11  cards
Levels of Measurment
4 levels of measurnemnt
4  cards
Probability and Sigifigance
Probability + why we use it, critical value etc.
8  cards
Distributions in psychology
Normal, negative and positive distribution.
6  cards
Correlations
What is a correlation 1,
What are co variables 2,
What is a positive correlation 3
10  cards
Obervations in psychology
What are observations 1,
What is a structured observation 2,
Why do psychologists use observat...
21  cards

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