Research Methods 4.0 / 5 based on 1 rating ? PsychologyResearch methods and techniquesA2/A-levelAQA Created by: Sophie BrownCreated on: 13-06-13 15:54 Knowledge gained from experiments or observations Empirical 1 of 42 Not letting what researchers already think or want to impact the research Objectivity 2 of 42 Reasoning from the particular to the general Induction 3 of 42 Reasoning from the general to the particular Deduction 4 of 42 Kuhn- Psychology cannot be a science because it doesn't have a... Paradigm 5 of 42 A paradigm is a unified set of... Assumptions 6 of 42 Other researchers judge this in peer review Validity 7 of 42 Peer review helps to identify... Flaws 8 of 42 A main purpose of peer review is to allocate this Funding 9 of 42 Peer review is a good way to detect... Fraud 10 of 42 One criticism of peer review may be that not all judges are... Objective 11 of 42 Purpose of the abstract Summarise the whole investigation 12 of 42 What does the introduction section include? Previous research --> hypothesis 13 of 42 Sub-categories of the method section Design, Participants, Materials, Procedure 14 of 42 Two parts of results section Descriptive statistics and inferential statistics 15 of 42 What do you accept or reject in the discussion section? Null Hypothesis 16 of 42 What else is in the discussion section? Limitations, modifications, implications 17 of 42 Name the measures of central tendency Mean, median and mode 18 of 42 Name the measure of dispersion Range, Standard deviaiton 19 of 42 Graph used for nominal data Bar chart (bars DON'T touch!) 20 of 42 Significance level used in psychology 5% 21 of 42 Error made if the significance level is too high Type 1 22 of 42 Allows less possibility that the result occured by chance Type 2 23 of 42 Falsely reject the null hypothesis Type 1 24 of 42 Falsely accept the null hypothesis Type 2 25 of 42 Test for correlations Spearman's Rho 26 of 42 Test for nominal data, repeated measures Sign test 27 of 42 Test for ordinal data, independent groups Mann-Whitney 28 of 42 Consistency, replicability Reliability 29 of 42 Measuring what it claims to measure Validity 30 of 42 Consistency within a measure Internal reliability 31 of 42 Consistency over time External reliability 32 of 42 Figure that shows good observer reliability 0.8 or more 33 of 42 Method to assess internal reliability Split-half method 34 of 42 Method to assess external reliability Test-retest method 35 of 42 How to improve observer reliability Operationalisation of variables, training 36 of 42 How to improve test reliability (internal & external) Altering parts of the test to improve correlation 37 of 42 3 examples of external validity Population, ecological and temporal 38 of 42 Ways to increase internal validity Reduce extraneous variables, demand characteristics etc. and use standardised instructions/procedures 39 of 42 Face validity Does it look legit?! 40 of 42 Content validity Theory behind the content of the test is assessed by experts 41 of 42 Concurrent validity Compared to an existing method already known to be valid 42 of 42
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