What are the major features of science? (select them below)
Empiricism
Research
Objectivity
Replicability
Reliability
Control
Theory construction
What is Peer review?
The process of working with others to ensure that the work you do is scientific.
The process whereby a professional from the same field assesses the work of others, to ensure it is scientific, before publication.
What is a laboratory experiment?
An experiment conducted in a natural environement with an IV but possible EV's to affect the study.
A highly controlled experiment, in a highly controlled environment..
An experiment using existing IV's and naturally occuring IV's.
Tick two exapmles of a self-report method.
Questionnaires
Observations
Correlational analysis
Interviews
Reliability depends on whether the study can be repeated and gain the same, or similar results.
Validity refers to how truthful the data is
What are the ethical considerations psychologists must take into account? Tick the following that apply.
Competance
Respect- including the right to withdraw, confidentiality and anonymity...
Care of participants
Responsibility- e.g. protection from physical harm, and debriefing.
Lying- Do not lie to your participants
Integrity- e.g. honesty and accuracy.
Which statistical analyisis do you use when: There is a correlation between two co-variables, the data is pairs of scores from one person or thing i.e. the two are related, the data is ordinal or interval (so it is not nominal).
Chi Squared
Mann Whitney
Spearmans Rho
Wilcoxon Test
Which test is used when the hypothesis predicts a difference between the two conditions or an assosciation between two variables, The sets of data are independant, The data is nominal.
Which test do you use in this case? When the hypothesis predicts a difference between two sets of data, when the data is from two sets of participants (independant groups), and the data is ordinal.
Spearman's Rho
What about this test: When the hypothesis predicts a difference between two sets of data, the two sets of data are pairs of scores from one person or a matches pair, the data is ordinal.
