Research Methods (G541)
- Created by: britannie1509
- Created on: 07-05-15 17:36
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- Correlations
- Zero
- Positive
- Negative
- Can't infer causation
- only relationship
- Coefficients
- Strong
- 0.8
- Perfect
- 1.0
- Weak
- 0.2
- Zero
- Strong
- Hypothesis
- State relationship or correlation
- Add operationalised IV and DV
- Observations
- Participant
- Take part in observation
- could be less objective
- Non Participant
- Only observation
- No interaction
- Covert
- ethical issues
- participants unaware of observation
- Overt
- participants could act differently
- Participants aware of observer
- Reliability
- Difficult to replicate
- Inter rater
- Improve by using coding scheme
- Validity
- Participants aware
- Observer bias
- Validity
- Participants aware
- Observer bias
- Sampling
- Event
- Coding scheme
- records an event every time it happens
- Could be difficult to record everything
- Time
- researcher decides on a time
- Records behaviors in that time frame
- Not representative due to behaviors missed outside the time frame
- Event
- Participant
- Self Report
- Questionnaires
- open questions
- Qualitative data
- Closed questions
- Quantitative data
- Social desirability
- Response rates
- leading Qs
- open questions
- Interviews
- Structured
- Unstructured
- Quantitative data
- No meaning
- numerical
- easy to analyse
- Qualitative data
- no interpretation needed
- describing the meaning
- more valid
- difficult to analyse
- Types
- Hand out
- face to face
- phone
- email/internet
- postal
- Reliability
- consistent finding
- Validity
- measures what it claims to
- Questionnaires
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