Investigation Designs
Descriptive Statistics
Ethics
MISC
EXTRA
100
This investigation design looks at manipulating the Independent Variable
What is the Experimental Design
100
This is the average of all of the data
What is a Mean
100
This is one of the main ethical considerations that researchers need to take into consideration when conducting research.
What is Confidentiality Informed consent Right to withdraw Voluntary Participation
100
This level of explanation focuses on the psychological processes that are universal
What is the basic process level of explanation
100
This substance is known not have have an expiry date.
What is Honey
200
The following sentence is an example of which Investigation design: "The researcher may investigate issues that might otherwise be unethical or impossible to do so in another setting"
What is a Quantitative Observational Design
200
This is the middle number of all the pieces of data
What is Median
200
This safety precaution can occur in the following scenario: A participant is totally informed about the nature of the experiment and that knowledge may effect the behavior of the participant throughout the experiment.
What is Deception
200
This type of data is information about the qualities or characteristics of what is being studied.
What is Qualitative data
200
This nation hosted the 2006 FIFA World Cup
What is Germany
300
In the Qualitative Investigation Design, this variable is used to test the amount of change that occurs within a study.
What is the Dependent Variable
300
This set of scores will give you what mean? 10,17, 25, 32, 17, 5, 9, 20, 11, 2, 19, 33
What is 16.67
300
This procedure needs to be conducted at the end of all experiments.
What is Debriefing
300
This is the method in which participants are selected for their groups
What is Random Assignment
300
What is the capital city of Austria
Vienna
400
List the disadvantages associated with the Qualitative Investigation Design (hint. both focus group and delphi technique)
What is Focus Group: Individuals may not be able to present their information because another individual is speaking on behalf of the group --> into skewed data also individuals may not want to speak up if the focus group questions pertain to harmful topics (i.e. sexual abuse or violence) Delphi Technique: Needs to get to a consensus
400
This descriptive statistic informs the researcher about how far, on average, a score differs from the mean
What is a standard deviation
400
The researcher is rsponsible for this when a participant is showing signs of distress as a result of their participation in the study.
What is Right to Withdraw
400
Scenario: A researcher is looking at testing a hypothesis about reading skills in primary school students. To do this the researcher takes a sample of 10 yr 2 students from the local primary school. This is an example of what?
What is unrepresentative sample
400
This planet is the 5th planet from the sun
What is Jupiter
500
This is the difference between validity and reliability
What is Validity = Research has produced results that accurately measure the behavior or event that it claims to have measured. Reliability = Consistency and stability of the results obtained from the research study.
500
This skewed graph indicates a clustering of data to the left.
What is a positive skew
500
This is the difference between ethical considerations with humans and animals.
What is Animals: Need to be treated appropriately, if they need to endure surgery it needs to be done under appropriate levels of anesthesia, if life needs to betaken it must be done so quickly and painlessly
500
Discuss Content Analysis
What is Method for which qualitative data is collated and analyzed. 1. Organize data 2. Identify core themes 3. Code themes 4. Keep track of themes 5. Analysis
500
This term defines a group of crows.
What is a "Murder" of Crows
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