research designs and terminology 0.0 / 5 ? Psychologyresearch designs and terminologyUniversityNone Created by: carleyl95Created on: 14-01-20 17:37 when a variable is actively changed/manipulated and scores on another variable are measured to determine if there is an effect, random allocation experiments 1 of 30 the variable manipulated/changed independent 2 of 30 the variable measured dependent 3 of 30 variable that may impact on others interested in, but may have failed to take into account when designing study extraneous 4 of 30 specific types of extraneous variable related to the variable interested in confounding 5 of 30 highly controlled experiments, no extraneous variables, low ecological validity lab 6 of 30 natural setting, not well controlled, high ecological validity field 7 of 30 experiment not manipulated by researcher in any way naturalistic 8 of 30 no random allocation of ps to conditions, instead use variables that cannot be manipulated e.g. gender quasi 9 of 30 increases liklihood that ps in diff conditions have more or less same charactersitcis random allocation 10 of 30 matching on variable e.g. age gender- guarantees ps in diff conditions have more or less same characteristics matching ps 11 of 30 measures relationships between variables- cannot imply causation correlation 12 of 30 any property/characteristic of event, object or person that may have diff values at diff times variables 13 of 30 variable that can take any value in given range not changing in discrete jumps continuous 14 of 30 variable that can take on any discrete value in given range discrete 15 of 30 variable where values are categories categorical 16 of 30 same ps in all conditions within ps/repeated measures 17 of 30 diff groups of ps in diff conditions independent measures/between ps 18 of 30 alternate between diff conditions per p counterbalancing 19 of 30 data in categories nominal 20 of 30 data on some sort of scale ie ratings ordinal 21 of 30 data where can put scores in order of increasing magnitude interval 22 of 30 data where scores in ascending order but has absolute zero ratio 23 of 30 design that measures changes in ps over time and ps at different ages at the same time point sequential 24 of 30 sampling where each p has equal chance of being picked random 25 of 30 sampling where randomly recruit ps to sub categories stratified 26 of 30 sampling that chooses the every nth person systematic 27 of 30 sampling where ps chosen if they meet specific criteria quota 28 of 30 sampling where ps recruited via word of mouth snowball 29 of 30 sampling where ps are recuited because they are available opportunity 30 of 30
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