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6. What is meant be "Level of Significance"?

  • the percentage of how significant the study is
  • the level of which the null hypothesis is accepted or rejected
  • the level of what a study is classed as "significant"

7. What is "Empiricism"?

  • a view which suggests that experience does not effect the development of knowledge
  • a view which suggests that experience is central to the development of knowledge
  • a view which suggests that mathematical data is essential

8. What does "Replicability" mean?

  • the ability for a procedure or findings to be reproduced
  • the ability to copy a study
  • the ability of a study to be analysed

9. What is "Objectivity"?

  • views being based on observation and not on personal opinions or emotion
  • a view being solely based on the observers opinions
  • a term which refers to the aspect of studying objects rather than people

10. What does "Operationalised" mean?

  • a variable is given an operationalised definition
  • when a variable is given a specific name
  • when variables are given rational definitions

11. What are "Confounding Variables"?

  • variables that get confused with the independent variable
  • variables that confound results as they get confused with the DV
  • variables that challenge results

12. What is "Experimenter Bias"?

  • when experimenters are telling the participants what to do and how to act
  • the tendency of experimenters to find what they expect of want to show
  • when experimenters are biased towards the sample