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18 Cards in this Set
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Naturalistic observation
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Watching behaviour occurring in the usual place
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Observation study
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Collecting data by watching the behaviour of other people
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Open questions
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Questions that get qualitative data (Opinions and stuff)
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Order effects
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When a participant in a repeated measures study remembers what they did last time and it effects/influences their behaviour
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Random allocation
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Using chance to allocate people into a group
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Repeated measures
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When participants undertake both experiential conditions
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Standardised procedure
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When participants follow a structured method. This increases the internal validity of a study
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Study type
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Observations, laboratory experiments, case studies, naturalistic or field
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Surveys
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Data collection on large scale often done via interviews or questionnaires
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Independent variable
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The thing the researcher sets out to prove or disprove, such as the behaviour of the participant
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Dependent variable
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The behaviour that is effected by the independent variable
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External validity
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Can this study be picked up and moved elsewhere whilst still getting similar or the same results?
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Extraneous variable
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Something that might change the results that you can't control
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Ecological validity
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Does the study reflect real life? Does the study have mundane realism?
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Internal validity
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Does this study use good science to achieve its results?
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Inter-rater reliability
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When 2+ people observe and then cross-refrence results to improve reliability of results
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Ethics
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Guidelines that every study should follow; informed consent, confidentiality, protection of participants, deceit and right to withdraw
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Experiment
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When the method is highly controlled
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