Research methods
- Created by: Larliecool
- Created on: 19-04-17 17:17
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- Sampling
- Volunteer
- quicker but causes volunteer bias
- Opportunity
- convenient and cheap
- Systematic
- avoids researcher bias
- Stratified
- requires population to be sorted into starta
- Random
- all have an equal chance of being picked
- Research Methods
- Ethics
- Informed consent
- Deception
- Protection from harm
- Confidentiality
- dealing with ethics
- Debriefing
- anonymity
- provide the right to withhold data
- Counselling
- Pilot studies
- Single blind
- participants are unaware of the condition theyre in
- Double blind
- both participants and researcher are unaware of the condition
- Small trial run prior to main experiment
- Useful to check that everything works and instructions are understandable for participants
- Control group
- Allows researcher to compare and see if independent variable is the cause
- Single blind
- Self report study
- Questionnairs
- Open questions (qualitative)
- Leading questions
- Double negatives
- Closed questions (quantitative)
- Likert scale
- Rating scales
- Fixed choice opinion
- Open questions (qualitative)
- Interviews
- Structured
- Unstructured
- Semi-structured
- A method requiring participants to state their own feelings, opinions, or experiences on a topic
- Questionnairs
- Correlations
- Types
- Positive
- Negative
- None
- The relationship between two or more co-variables
- Evalutation
- Provides data to lead to future experiments
- Quick and economical
- cannot provide why variables are related
- Third variable problem
- can be misinturpreted
- Types
- Peer Review
- Purpose
- decides whether to award funding
- validate the quality and legitimacy
- suggest amendments and improvments
- Evaluation
- Publication bias - want to post positive results
- anonymity - may criticise rival researchers unnecessarily
- Researchers are critical of research which contradicts their own work
- So important research may be disregarded
- Purpose
- Ethics
- Volunteer
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