Research methods
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- Created on: 27-11-16 00:03
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- Research methods
- Evaluation points.
- Generalisable/ representative
- Social desirability
- Look good to other
- Sampling techniques
- Oppurtunistic
- Anyone who is around at the time of the study
- Advantage- quick and easy.
- Disadvantage- not representative and bias
- Anyone who is around at the time of the study
- Systematic
- Using the nth term. e.g A list of 100 people and you pick every 5
- Advantage-provides a representativesample
- Disadvantage-Costs time and money
- Advantage-provides a representativesample
- Using the nth term. e.g A list of 100 people and you pick every 5
- Random
- Picking participants randomly
- Advantage- Representative
- Disadvantage- Time consuming, costs.
- Advantage- Representative
- Picking participants randomly
- Volunteer
- Volunteering to be in the study
- Stratified
- Getting participants with the same characteristics to be apart of the study
- Advantage-Findings will be highly representativeso can be generalised
- Disadvantage-Highly time consuming. Rarely used in psychology
- Advantage-Findings will be highly representativeso can be generalised
- Getting participants with the same characteristics to be apart of the study
- Oppurtunistic
- Types of experiments
- Lab experiment
- experiments carried out in highly controlled surrounds, usually with equipment.
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- experiments carried out in highly controlled surrounds, usually with equipment.
- Lab experiment
- Evaluation points.
- Can the findings from the sample be applied to the target population?
- Imposing your own views towards the study
- Bias
- Practicality
- How easy is it to do. Time, cost?
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