Other terms
Refers to the spread of data.
What is variability?
Participants agree to participate on the basis of full information provided on the aim and nature of the research.
What is informed consent?
A type of research wherein the independent variable is manipulated.
What is experimental research?
The variable manipulated to create your data set.
What is independent variable?
Non-numerical data that requires the researcher to do a content analysis.
What is qualitative data?
The experiment is able to measure what it wants to measure (accuracy).
What is validity?
The participants' involvement is entirely his or her own choice.
What is voluntary participation?
A type of research wherein the respondents are allowed to give as much information as they wish.
What is qualitative research design?
This is the variable you are measuring or observing.
What is dependent variable?
A type of data wherein no personal interpretation is needed.
What is objective quantitative data?
This word means that you get the same results by using the same procedure on a different sample.
What is reliability?
The identity of the participants are concealed.
What is confidentiality and anonymity?
The researcher uses pre-existing differences in the variable to gather data.
What is quantitative observational design?
What is extraneous variables?
A type of numerical data that requires some personal interpretation.
What is subjective qualitative data?
Refers to the relations between two or more things.
What is correlation?
All participants have the right to leave the study at any time without giving any explanation.
What is the right to withdraw?
A group of 3 to 7 people who participate in a group discussion led by the researcher on the topic of study.
What is focus groups?
This is where an effect is experienced by subjects because they think that a change should occur.
What is placebo effect?
Term used to explain how close the sample is to the population.
What is representativeness?
The four levels of explanation used in psychology.
What is biological, basic processes, socio-cultural and person?
Researchers' duty to accurately publish the findings and let the participants know of the results of the study.
What is accurate reporting and debriefing?
Analysis of data using qualitative means by looking for common themes and how frequent the ideas were expressed.
What is content analysis?
This is how the environment affects the data?
What is situational effects?
The amount of people used for the investigation.
What is sample?