AS Psychology- Research methods ( Experimental Method)

Frage	Antworten
Aim	Statement of what the researcher intends to find out
Hypothesis	A precise and testable statement about the assumed relationship about variables. Operationalisation is a key part of making a statement testable
Confounding Variable	Any variable which varies systematically with the independent variable that might potentially affect the dependent variable
Independent Variable	An event that is directly manipulated by an experimenter to test its effects on another variable
Dependent Variable	The variable that is measured by the experimenter
Operationalise	Ensuring that variables are in a form that can be exactly tested
Standardised Procedures	A set of procedures that are the same for all participants in order to be able to repeat the study
Alternative Hypothesis	Any hypothesis except the null
Directional Hypothesis	A hypothesis which states the predicted difference between two conditions or two groups of participants
Non-directional Hypothesis	A hypothesis that simply predicts that there is a difference between two conditions or two groups of participants, without stating the direction of the difference
Null Hypothesis	The assumption of no difference/ relationship between variables being studied
Co- Variable	Variables in a correlation, they must be continuous and related

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