Experiment

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Experiments conducted in artificial environments
Laboratory
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Only experiments allow you to establish it
Cause and effect
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How similar to real life the research is
Ecological Validity
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Participants trying to work out purpose of study and behaving differently
Demand Characteristics
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A group of participants exposed to one variation of the IV
condition
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Solution to order effects
counter balancing
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Solution to participant variables
randomisation
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Solution to experimenter bias
confederate
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Other variables that are controlled so they don't affect the DV
extraneous
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Stating clearly how a variable will be manipulated (IV) or measured (DV)
Operationalising
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A variable we couldn't or didn't control, reducing the validity
confounding
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Predicting that the IV will have an effect on the DV
Two tailed hypothesis
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Predicting specifically how the IV will affect the DV
one tailed hypothesis
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Predicting that the IV will have no effect on the DV
null hypothesis
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Word that should be used in every hypothesis
significant
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The set of people researchers want to find out about
Target population
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A small set of people taken from the target population
Sample
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How well a sample reflects the target population
representative
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Sample is made of people from one gender
Gender bias
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biased towards men (more men)
androcentric
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biased towards women (more women)
estrocentric
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Sample is too focused on one culture
cultural bias
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biased towards one culture/ethnicity
ethnocentric
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Can we generalise results from our sample to the target population?
population validity
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Data that occurs in frequencies or categories
Nominal
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Data that occurs in ranks or that can be placed in order from highest to lowest
Ordinal
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Data in units of equal size eg.time
interval
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Experiments using naturally occurring independent variables
Quasi
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