Psychology

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  • What are strengths of Matched Pairs?
    No order effects
    Controls individual differences
  • What are limititations of Repeated Measures?

    Order effects
    Boredom effects
    Demand characteristics
  • What are limitations of Independent Groups?
    Individual differences
    More people required
  • What are limitations of Matched Pairs?
    Time consuming
    DIfficult to match exactly
    Requires more participants
  • How do we Counter Balence?

    Half participants do C1 and other C2. Participants dont talk to each other and then complete the other condition.
  • What are Order effects?
    The order conditions are completed can influence outcomes eg. practice
  • What are Boredom effects?

    Participants may give up and do worse in later activities
  • What are damand characteristics?

    Participants may change the way they act due to them trying to guess the aim
  • What is Operational definition?
    Clearly describing the IV and DV variable on how they will be manipulated and measured.
  • Why do we operationalise?
    Makes the experiment more replicable
  • What are co-variables?
    Variables no controlled by the researcher investigated in a correlation
  • What is a Likert Scale?

    Tool to measure opinions, behaviours and attitudes
  • What are confounding Variables?
    Variables that influence the DV happens more in one condition than another
  • What are extraneous variables?

    Variables that if are not controlled will effect the DV
  • What are control variables?

    Things you keep the same
  • What are participant variables?

    Individual difference between the participants
  • What are situational variables?

    Factors in the environment that can influence behaviours
  • What is Standardisation?

    Keeping everything but the IV the same
  • What are investigator effects?
    Researchers behaviours may impact results
  • How can we limit investigator effects?

    Training
    Double blind
  • What is Social desirablity bias?

    Participants change how they respond to seem socially acceptable
  • What experimental designs have random allocation?

    Matched pairs and independant measures
  • What is an observation?
    Participants are watched and what they do or say is recorded.
  • What do observations never have?
    IV or DV
  • What is a Naturalistic observation?
    Observation is in a natural environment
  • What is a Controlled observation?

    Environment is controlled by the researcher
  • What is a structured observation?

    Observation using bahavioural catagories or event / time sampling
  • What is an unstructured observation?

    Observer records everything they see
  • What is a participant observation?

    Observer joins in the activity
  • What is a non participant observation?

    Observer does not join in the activity
  • What is a Overt observation?

    Participants are aware they are being observed
  • What is a Covert observation?

    Participants are unaware they are being observed
  • What are behavioural categories?

    Divide target behaviour into subset behaviours which are operationalised
  • What is time sampling?
    Record what happens during set time intervals
  • What is event sampling?

    Record when the observer see it
  • How can we improve observation reliablity?
    Training
    Have multiple observers
    Agree on catagories
  • What are self report techniques?

    Methods of collecting data where participants report their own data
  • What are two self report techniques?
    Questionaires
    Interviews
  • What is a Questionnaire?
    Set of predetermined questions that participants answer
  • What is a closed question?

    Participants choose their answer from a set of options