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19 Cards in this Set
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What is Social Psychology? |
A scientific study of the way in which a person’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviours are influenced by the real, imagined, or implied presence of others |
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What are the 6 steps researchers take to test their ideas? |
Step 1: Research question Step 2: Literature review Step 3: Hypothesis Step 4: Operational definition Step 5: Collecting and analyzing data Step 6: Proposing or revising a theory |
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What are the 2 types of correlational research methods? Define them. |
-Observational/naturalistic methods: a research approach that involves the observation and systematic recording of a particular behaviour.
-Self report or survey methods: a research approach that relies on asking people questions about their thoughts,feelings and behaviour. |
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What is a meta-analysis? |
a literature review that analyzes data from several studies that examine related hypothesis |
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What is the Experimental Method? |
A research approach that involves the manipulation of one or more independent variables and the measurement of one or more dependent variables |
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What is internal validity? |
the degree to which one can validly draw conclusions about the effects of the independent variable on the dependent variable |
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What are demand characteristics? (internal validity) |
The cues in a research setting that may inadvertently guide participants' behaviour. |
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What are experimenter expectancy effects?
(Internal Validity) |
When an experimenter's expectations about the results of the study influence participants' behaviour and thereby affect the results of the study |
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What is psychological realism?
(Internal & External Validity) |
the extent to which participants are engaged in a particular study and hence act in more spontaneous and natural ways. |
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What are cover stories and control conditions? |
A cover story is how researchers hide the hypothesis of the study, sometimes by the use of false information.
Control conditions are the use of conditions, i.e. changing the condition of the letter that they are reading, varying between groups. |
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What is external validity? |
the degree to which there can be reasonable confidence that the same results would be obtained for other people in other situations. |
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What is mundane realism?
(External Validity) |
The extent to which the conditions of the study resemble places and events that exist in the real world. |
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Replication |
Studies should conducted in different populations are locations, and even in different cultures |
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Qualitative Research |
The focus is on the meaning, rather than the quantity
Data is in words, pictures, music...
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Principles of Research Ethics (4) |
Review by an institutional ethics board
Provide informed consent
Protect confidentiality
Provide debriefing |
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Validity |
Validity is “an indication of the extent to which a test measures what it is intended to measure” (Hogan, 2007, p. 661). |
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Reliability |
Reliability is “the consistency or dependability of test performance across occasions, scorers, and specific content” (Hogan, 2007, p. 659). |
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Moderator vs Mediator |
a moderator variable is one that influences the strength of a relationship between two other variables, and a mediator variable is one that explains the relationship between the two other variables |
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Important influences in questions (3) |
Question wording Language Question Order |
