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16 Cards in this Set
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What factors influence the choice of participants to use in psychological research?
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Precedent, availability, and the nature of the problem.
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What will determine the number of research participants that are able to be used in a project?
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financial considerations, time constraints, and participant availability
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What are some ways to lessen the effects of extreme scores?
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-one way is to test more participants.
- another way is through stratified random sampling. *by sampling a more specific type of participant you remove extremes from the sample.* |
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What is statistical power and how do you increase it?
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This is the probability that a statistical test will be significant.
-You can increase this by increasing the number of participants. (this works b/c increasing the number of scores increases the number of scores that cluster in the center of the distribution) |
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Group homogeneity is best associated with what?
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-testing a smaller number of participants.
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What are some ways in which the experimenter can be an extraneous variable?
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-Physiological experimenter characteristics such as age, sex, and race.
-Psychological experimenter attributes such as hostility anxiety, etc. |
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What are Rosenthal effects?
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When an experimenters preconceived idea of appropriate responding influences the treatment of participants and in turn their behavior.
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What are Demand characteristics?
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-The aspects of the experiment that may provide the participants with cues concerning the experimenters hypothesis and how they are supposed to act.
- These can be controlled through the use of single and double blind experiments. |
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What is the good participant effect?
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The desire to cooperate and act in accordance with the experimenters expectation
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What is responce bias caused by and how are these factors controlled?
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-Yea-saying: the tendency to answer yes to all questions
-nay-saying: tendency to answer no to all questions. -These can be controlled by writing some items in a way that makes a negative responce an agreement and a positive responce a disagreement. |
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What is a responce set?
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This is when the experimental situation or context prompts a certain responce from the subject.
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What is Cross-cultural psychology?
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A branch of psychology whose goal is to determine the universality of research results
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What is the difference between an Etic and an Emic?
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Etic- A finding that is the same in different cultures
Emic- A culture-specific finding |
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What is the definition of culture and what are some problems that it can cause in research design?
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Culture- Lasting values, attitudes, and behaviors that are shared by a group and transmitted to subsequent generations.
-culture can influence the choice of a research problem, the nature of the experimental hypothesis, and the selection of the IV and the DV. |
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What does it mean when someone is Ethnocentric?
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They view other cultures as an extension of their own culture.
ex. A researcher that takes results from his own culture and thinks that it is applicable to all other cultures as well. |
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What is a cultural responce set?
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The tendency of a particular culture to respond in a certain manner.
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