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26 Cards in this Set
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Name the 6 Ethical Issues
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Confidentality, Privacy, Protection from Harm, Right to Withdraw, Informed Consent, Deception
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What is an independent variable?
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The variable you are changing/manipulating.
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Give a fully operationalised hypothesis for an experiment of your choice.
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Those who sleep an average of 4-6 hours every night will do worse in a race than those who sleep for an average of 8 hours.
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What is meant by Experimental Design?
(The book calls it Research Design) |
Identifies the specifics of the groups invovled in an experiment- ie whether there will be independent groups, repeated measures or a matched pairs design.
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What is meant by matched pairs?
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Experimental Design that invovles doing an experiment first with an audience and then without.
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What sampling technique did you use in your own experiments?
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Opportunity Sampling
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What is meant by a random sample?
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Involves making a list of all possible participants and then drawing a selection of them to participate in the experiment. For example putting names into a computer.
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Give one advantage of an independent groups design.
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Participants can do the same test in different conditions, eg with or without pictures.
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Give one advantage of a repeated measures design.
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Fewer participants are needed to get the same amount of data.
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Give one advantage of a matched pairs design.
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Important differences are minimised through matching.
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Give one advantage of opportunity sampling.
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It's quick and practical.
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Give one advantage of random sampling.
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It's fair and unbiased, in theory.
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Give details of one field experiment into Eye-Witness Testimony.
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Yarmey asked 650 people in a public place to recall the features of a woman they'd just met, for 15 seconds, 2 minutes earlier. Younger group (18-29) were more confident at recall but there was no difference between any of the groups.
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Name one repeated measures study into memory.
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What are order effects?
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What is meant by operationalising a variable?
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What is a dependent variable?
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What is an ethics committee?
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What is meant by experimental method?
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What is meant by independent groups?
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What is meant by repeated measures?
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How would you recruit a volunteer sample?
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Give one disadvantage of an independent groups design.
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Give one disadvantage of a repeated measures design.
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Give one disadvantage of a matched pairs design.
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Give one advantage of volunteer sampling.
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