Research Methods A2

Revision questions for the research methods part of PSYA4 .

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What is peer review?
Where experts in the same field assess the validity and quality of your research
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What is internal realibility
Whether a test is consistent within itself
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What is external reliability
where results are consistent regardless of when the test is used.
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What method would be used to assess reliability?
split half method
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What is internal validity
Whether the experiment measures what it claims to measure
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What is one negative of correlational research
cannot establish cause and effect.
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How can the ethical issue of deception be corrected after an experiment has taken place
Debriefing
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What is the most common level of significance used
0.05%
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If a study uses repeated measures and ordinal data, which is the most appropriate statistical test?
Wilcoxon
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If a study uses independent measures and nominal data, which is the most appropriate statistical test to use?
Chi- squared
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What type of statistical test is used for correlational data?
Spearmans rank
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For a something to be classed as a science it must have Empiricism, replicability and....
objectivity
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What did Thomas Khun state?
Science has one specific paradigm and therefore psychology is a pre- science
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