The researcher's area of interest - what they are looking at (eg: to investigate helping behaviour)
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Case Study
In-depth investigation of a single person, group or event, where data gathered from a variety of sources and by several different methods
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Closed Questions
Questions where there are fixed choices of responses (eg: yes/no) they generate quantitative data
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Confidentiality
Unless agreed beforehand, participants have the right to expect that all data collected during a research study will remain confidential and anonymous
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Confounding variable
An extraneous variable that varies systematically with the IV so we cannot be sure of the true source of the change to the DV
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Control Group
A group that is treated normally and gives us a measure of how people behave when they are not exposed to the exposed to the experimental treatment (eg: allowed to sleep normally)
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Controlled Observation
An observation study where the researchers control some variables - often takes place in a laboratory setting
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Counterbalancing
A way of trying to control for order effects in a repeated measures design, eg: half the participants do condition A followed by B and the other half do B followed by A
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In-depth investigation of a single person, group or event, where data gathered from a variety of sources and by several different methods
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Case Study
Card 3
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Questions where there are fixed choices of responses (eg: yes/no) they generate quantitative data
Back
Card 4
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Unless agreed beforehand, participants have the right to expect that all data collected during a research study will remain confidential and anonymous
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Card 5
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An extraneous variable that varies systematically with the IV so we cannot be sure of the true source of the change to the DV
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