Zusammenfassung der Ressource
RESEARCH METHODS
- Experiment Design
- Repeated Measures
- All participants do all conditions
- Positive = any difference in result is
likely to be becaused by IV as no
difference in Groups
- Negative = 2nd
condition could improve
because of practice
effect
- Negative = order effects bored / tired will affect result
- Independent Measures
- Participants only complete one condition
- individual
differences are
not accounted
for
- no order effects
- TYPES OF EXPERIMENT
- Laboratory
- Artifical
- Controlled
- Measurable
- low ecological validity
- Field
- Natural Setting
- small amount of control
- high ecological validity
- extraneous variables
- TYPES OF STUDY
- Correlational Study -
analysis of two set of data
looking for a relationship
- Positive Correlation = 1 variable so does other
- Negative Correlation = 1 variable increases 1 variable decreases
- Longitudinal - takes
place over a long
time, (case study of
a child)
- Attrition - drop out of participants
- Cross Sectional -
comparing two sets of
participants ("who can
2yr olds v 7yr olds
- Piaget - Conservation of number
- Case Study -
natural, either one
person or a small
group
- Qualitative data, rich details / observation
- often subjective / researcher bias
- Freud
- Quantitative Data = Numerical Data
- Qualitative Data = Descriptive Data