Psychology Research Methods

Psychology: research methods

What are the two variables used in research methods?

What are independent variables?

What are dependent variables?

What is a Hypothesis?

What variables must the hypothesis use?

What is a operationalised variable?

Name the 3 control conditions

What are the two types of Hypothesis?

What does experimental hypothesis mean?

What does Null hypothesis mean?

When should the experimental hypothesis only be used?

What are the two types of experimental hypothesis?

What does directional hypothesis mean?

What does Non-directional hypothesis mean?

What are extraneous variables?

What are the 3 parts to extraneous variables?

What are participant variables?

What are situational variables?

What can the participant effects do?

What is Social Desirability?

What does extraneous variables change into when not controlled?

What is a pilot study?

The purposes of a pilot study are...?

What is Random Allocation?

What are the three experimental designs?

What do Independent groups mean?

What do Repeated measures mean?

What do Matched Pairs mean?

Name an advantage and disadvantage of Independent groups

Name an advantage and disadvantage for Repeated measures

Name an advantage and a disadvantage for Matched pairs

When do order effects occur?

What are the two ways on dealing with order effects?

How does Randomisation deal with order effects?

How does counterbalancing deal with order effects?

What are demand characteristics?

What is a single blind procedure and a double blind procedure?

Name the 4 experimental methods

What is the description for Lab?

Name a advantage and disadvantage of using Lab

What does the Field method mean?

What are the advantages and disadvantages of Field?

The definition of Quasi?

What are advantages and disadvantages of Quasi?

What does Natural method mean?

The advantages and disadvantages of Natural?

Name the 5 methods used for section of participants

What are the descriptions for Random and Opportunity?

what are the descriptions for self-selected and stratified?

What does Systematic mean?

What are the advantages and disadvantages of Random?

What are the advantages and disadvantages of Opportunity?

What are the advantages and disadvantages of self -selected?

What are the advantages and disadvantages of stratified?

What are the advantages and disadvantages of Systematic

Name all of the ethical issues (D.R.I.P)?

How do you avoid ethical issues?

What does a reliability mean?

What does internal reliability and external reliability mean?

Name the 2 reliabilities

What does validity mean?

What are the 2 validities?

What does internal validity mean?

What does external validity mean?

What are Self - reports used for?

What 2 types of questions are asked in interviews?

What are open and closed questions?

What can open and closed questions produce?

Name a strength and weakness of open questions

Name a strength and weakness for closed questions?

What scales can self-report use?

What are rating scales?

What kind of data can rating scales generate?

name a strength and weakness of rating scales

What are Likert scales?

Name a strength and weakness for likert scales

What are Questionnaires?

Name the 2 types of questionnaires

What are filler and lie detector questions?

Name a strength and weakness for questionnaires

Name the 3 types of interviews

What do structured, unstructured and semi - structured mean?

Name a strength and a weakness on semi - structured, unstructured and structured

What are the 2 ways to assess the reliability ?

What does split-half method and Test-retest assessment mean?

What is Internal validity?

What are the common ways to assess internal validity?

what does concurrent and face validity mean?

What is external validity?

When is observational methods used?

What are the 2 observations?

What does Naturalistic and controlled observations mean?

Name a strength and weakness for Naturalistic observations

Name a strength and weakness for controlled observations

what is unstructured observation?

What is structured observation?

what must the behavioural categories be?

what are the strengths and weaknesses of structured and unstructured?

what are the different types of observation?

what does participant and non-participant mean?

What are overt and covert observations?

what are the strengths and weaknesses of overt observation?

what are strength and weakness of covert observation?

Name the data collection technique?

what is event and time sampling?

Name strength and weakness on event sampling?

Name strength and weakness on time sampling?

what does inter-rater reliability?

how can inter-rater reliability be improved?

what are the 2 types of validity observations?

What does internal and external validity mean in observations?