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Flashcards by Elise West, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Elise West
over 7 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| 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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