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Introduction to Psychology
Year 12 Intro to Psych Flash Set
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Psychology
12th Grade
02/11/2015

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What is Standard Deviation?
Definition
How far the scores are spread from the mean
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What are the 3 different types of research design methods?
Definition
Experimental, Qualitative, Quantitative
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What happens in a experimental reseach design
Definition
The researcher manipulateds the independent variable
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What are the advantages of an experimental research design?
Definition
  • As well as controlling the Independent variable, the experimenter attempts to eliminate unwanted extraneous variables
  • The control over extraneous variables is greater than other methods
  • Makes it possible to determine a cause and effect relationship
  • Can assess data quantitatively or qualitatively
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What are the disadvantages of an experiemental research design?
Definition

Experimental situation may not relate to the real world

It may be unethical or impossible 

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What is a Quantitaive Observational research design?
Definition
  • Researcher observes what happens to the Dependent Variable (result)
  • Can investigate differences between groups
  • Numerical data 
  • Observational data
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What are the advantages of Quantiative Observational?
Definition
  • Allows variables that may be unethical, impossible or too costly in experimental design
  • Some kinds of behaviour can onyl be observed in naturalistic, unplanned setting
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Disadvantages of Quantiative Observational
Definition
  • Cannot infer such a strong cause and effect relationship
  • Greater chance of other variables affecting the results 
  • Cannot replicate findings as some situations may not naturally occur again
  • Observer bias may influence results
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What is a Qualitative research design?
Definition
  • Uses focus groups, interviews and the Delphi Technique
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What category does Focus Group come under?
Definition
Qualitative
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What is a focus group?
Definition
  • A group of 12 who get interviewed and get data through discussion
  • Lead by trained facilitator
  • Participatns are encouraged to talk with each other
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What are the advantagages of a focus group?
Definition
  • May be more convenient than 1on1 interviews
  • Rich Data can be collected
  • Easy to organise and iexpensive to conduct
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What are the disadvantages of a focus group?
Definition
  • People may not feel comfortable expressing opinions in front of others
  • A few people may dominate the discussion
  • Cannot establish causation
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What is the Delphi Technique?
Definition
  • Self-administered questionnaires and feedback
  • Information from experts
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Advantages of Delphi Technique
Definition
  • Due to confidentiality and anonymity participants are free to express themselves
  • Experts can be contacted easily and cheaply and through many different ways e.g. email, telephone etc
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Disadvantages of Delphi Technique
Definition
  • Researcher bias can contaminate results
  • Doesnt allow generalisation fo results due to small sample group
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Sample size
Definition
  • Larger the sample size, more accurate the results
  • Random assignmen
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What types of data can be gathered ?
Definition
  • Objective quantiative
  • Subjective Quantitative
  • Qualitative
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What is Objective Quantitative Data
Definition
  • Not based on opinion
  • Numerical
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What is subjective quantitative data?
Definition
  • Feelings or thoughts measured as numbers
  • questionnaires
  • Rating scales
  • Checklists
  • Scores on a personality test
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What is qualitative data?
Definition
  • Data is always subjective and in the form of words
  • Content analysis
  • focus groups
  • delphi technique
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What is the independent variable?
Definition
What experimenters can change and what theyre working on
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What is the dependent variable?
Definition
The result
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What are the ethical considerations?
Definition
  • Informed ocnsent
  • Right to withdraw
  • Do no harm
  • Voluntary participation
  • Confidentiality
  • Deception and debriefing
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