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24 Cards in this Set
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logical positivism |
reality exists independent of the knower an can be percieved objectively. |
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social constructionism |
impossible to disocver pure turht becuase there is no independent ur truth knowers perception of the world is always hsaped by the social context. |
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case history method |
uses clinical research, and involves gathering many details about one or more individual usually throguh interview. |
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narrative approach |
large info from individual..allows research participant to react to researchers interpreation of lfie story. |
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phenomenological method |
qualitative approach.. understand behaviour from persepctive of person being studied. subjective info collected, indepth |
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discourse analysis |
analysis of language in texts...such as interview reponses, disucssion and essays. |
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naturalistic observation |
viewing the phenomena for yourself..i.e. watching aggression levels in children to comapre boys and girls agression. |
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survey methods |
set of standardized quesstionaites to collect info from large number of people. |
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correlational methods |
shows how to variables are correlated but cannto produce evidence to show one causes the other. |
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experiment |
controlled means of testing tenants of a theoery |
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independent variable |
manipluated variable |
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dependent variable |
effected variable |
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longitudial studies |
follows same research participant over extended periods of time. |
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meta-analysis |
involves statisical methods to combine fidnings from many different studies on the same behvaiour role in orderto evulauet the overall pattern of finidngs. |
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effect size |
amount of variation in the results attributed to gender. |
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distribution |
frequency with which certain responsesor scores are obtained when a group is studied |
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statistically significant |
prob. of resultign occurign by chance is less than 5% |
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transformationism |
Ruth Hubbard---- biology and enviroemnt work together towards an organsims devleopment..neither is more fundamental then the other. |
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sex of experimentor effect |
results produced by the gender of the researcher.--people react differently to men and women as experimentors |
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androcentirc norms |
to apply male behaviours as the norm against which to measure females. women who are less likely to do whatever it takes=relative lack of ambition....man who does that=less liekly to be thought of in that way. |
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ethnocentrism |
tendency to apply terms and assumptions of ne own culture to another culture. |
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heterosexism |
use of heteroexual relationship as norm for evaluatign all relationships. |
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anthrpromorphism |
tendency to view animal behaviours in human terms, |
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misognyn |
attitude of dislike and distrust of women |
