Psychology As Key Terms

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Ethical issues - Respect

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Participants should give Informed consent. Have the right to withdraw. And thier data should be kept Confidential.

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Ethical issues - Competence

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Reachers should not give advice beyond that they are competent to give

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Ethical issues - Responsibility

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Participants should be protected form psychical and psychological harm.

They should receive a Debrief.

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Ethical issues - Integrity

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Reachers should avoid deciving participants whenever possible

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Debates- Nature

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Nature is the argument that we are the product of our genes

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Debates - Nurture

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Nurture is the argument that we are product of our surroundings

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Debates - Freewill

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Our behaviour is purely done by our own choices

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Debates - Determinism

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That are behaviour is decided by factors out of our control

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Debates - Socially sensitive research

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This whether or not we should reasch into something.

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Debates - Situational

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Suggests behaviour is best explained by reference to the situation or circumstances

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Debates - Individual

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Suggests that behaviour is best explained as arising form a person's own personality.

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Debates - Holism

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Human behaviour should be viewed as the should be viewed as the product of different influences which all interact

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Debates - Reductionism

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Human behaviour can be explained as arising from the simple process

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Debates - Psychology as a scince

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Objective- matter of fact

Falsifiable - You can in theoy prove the findings wrong

Replicable - if it can be repeated with same outcome

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Reaschers Methods - Self Report

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Questionnaire and interview are used to data form participants directly on what they think and feel about a particular topic. They can collect quantitative or qualitative data depending on type of questions asked.

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Reasch methods - Experiment

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A study in with two or more gruops are set, and the results form a test or measured are compared between the two gruops to see whether they ate different or not .

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Research methods - Observation

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Research based on wacthing participants and how they behave within a defined situation. This could be a natural or controlled setting, and the participants mayor may not know they are being observed.

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Research methods - Correlation

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Two sets of numerical data are collected, and are compared against each other to establish whether there is a relationship between them. This could be a weak or strong, positive or negative.

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Research methods - Target population

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The gruop of people the researchers is interested in studying.

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Research methods - Sample

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The actual gruop of participants used in the research.

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Research methods - Sampling methods

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The different ways in which researchers can obtain a sample form within the target population.

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Research methods - Self-selecting

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This is when people volunteer to take part in the study. Often adverts, posters or leaflets will be distributed which contain details about the research and contact details to use if they wish to take part.

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Research methods - Opportunity

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A sample of participants produced by selecting those who are most readily available at a given time and place.

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Research methods - Random

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A technique in which each member of the target population had an equal chance of being selected.

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Research methods - Snowball

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When participants ate asked to contact thier friends and family to ask them to also take part.

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Research methods - Quantitative data

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Are about 'Quantities' of things. They are numbers , raw sroces, percentages, means, etc. They are measurements of things telling us how how much of something there is.

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Research methods - Qualitative data

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Are about 'qualities' of things. They are descriptions, words , meanings, pictures , etc. It is data that cannot readily be counted.

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Research methods - Primary data

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Any data which is collected directly from the participants by the researcher.

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Research methods - Secondary data.

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Data which has already been gathered by someone else other than the researcher

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Research methods - Reliability

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Reliability is about how consistent a measuring device is -I.e whether standardised and the same for all participants, and whether it would gain the same repeated.

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Research methods - Internal Reliability

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Refers to hoe consistently a method measures within itself. If methods of measurement were not standardised they would give you distorted