research methods

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which area investigates how individuals relate to each other and behaviours within a context?
social
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which is the hormone for aggression?
testosterone
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which neurotransmitter is implicated in schizofrenia?
dopamine
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what is the first step of forming research?
hypothesis
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what is the name for a preliminary study that tests the study design?
pilot
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which variable can be manipulated?
independent
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which type of hypothesis predicts a difference in the performance of 2 conditions?
two tailed
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what type of validity do lab experiments lack?
ecological
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which variables are more common in field and quasi experiments?
extraneous
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which type of sampling is the most ethical?
volunteer
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which type of sampling is least representative?
snowball
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what is reduced in independent measures?
demand characteristics
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what may confound the results in repeated measures design?
order effects
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which effect describes how researchers project the expected outcomes onto ps?
investigator
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which technique is used to prevent investigator effects?
double blind
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what is the main technique used to prevent order effects?
counterbalance
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which type of realism looks at how similar the task and situation are to real life?
mundane
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which type of realism looks at how much the participant believes in the experiment?
experimental
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which type of validity relates to the study measuring what it intends to?
face
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which type of validity relates to how the results correlate with other studies?
concurrent
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name the term for how consistently a method measures within itself
internal reliability
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which term relates to adding to existing knowledge about behaviour?
theoretical usefulness
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which method involves using observations to create hypotheses and theories?
induction
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which type of observation uses behaviour categories?
structured
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in which observation are ps unaware?
covert
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which type of sampling involves observing each p seperately for an amount of time?
time
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