Research Methods (PS111)

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1. What is informed consent? In relation to the ethical guidelines.

  • The researchers do not need the participants consent to conduct research on them
  • The researchers must tell the participants everything about the experiment, but do not have to get any form of consent.
  • The researchers should inform participants of the nature of the experiment and ask for their written consent before the start of the experiment
  • The researchers have no obligation to tell the participants the nature of the experiment, but must still get their consent.
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2. Name an advantage of a true experiment.

  • Not always possible or appropriate to manipulate psychological variables
  • Can test cause and effect relationships enabling explanation as well as descriptions of behaviour
  • Lacks ecological validity
  • IV and DV often narrowly defined

3. What is ecological validity?

  • Ecological validity is a measure which ensures that a researcher's experiment design closely follows the principle of cause and effect.
  • Ecological validity refers to the extent to which the findings of a research study are able to be generalized to real-life settings.
  • Ecological validity is a measure of how representative a research project is ‘at face value,' and whether it appears to be a good project.
  • Ecological validity is an indicator of how much meaning can be placed upon a set of test results.

4. What does Correlational/Cross-sectional Research not tell us?

  • About why the research is needed
  • About cause and effect relationships.
  • About who the participants are
  • About who conducted the research

5. How does the researcher control the procedures?

  • The researcher makes sure the procedures are different for each participant.
  • Any procedures (experimental instructions, experimenter's behaviour, tasks given) are not standardised.
  • Any procedures (experimental instructions, experimenter's behaviour, tasks given) are standardised.
  • The researcher chooses all procedures themselves
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