Psychological Research
Sampling
Types of Research Designs
Alternative Research Methods
Potpourri
100

An approach to psychology that treats it as one of the natural sciences, and therefore assumes that it is susceptible to the experimental method.

What is Experimental Psychology

100
is concerned with the selection of a subset of individuals from within a statistical population to estimate characteristics of the whole population
What is sampling?
100
Explores or tests relations between variables
What is correlational design/study?
100

Research that is conducted to understand phenomena in a deeper way and used to answer the "how" or "why."

What is qualitative methodology?

100

Agreeing with an item
regardless of its manifest content.

What is Yea-saying?

200

Observation

Measurement

Experimentation

What are the main tools of psychological science?

200
A research design in which every unit in the population has a chance of being selected in the sample
What is probability sampling?
200

Studies participants in their natural setting

What is field research design?

200

can be answered using a limited number of alternatives and have a high imposition of units.

What are closed questions?

200

A research design where a researcher compiles a descriptive study of a subject's experiences, observable behaviors, and archival records kept by an outside observer.

What is a Case Study?

300

The nonscientific use of information to explain or predict behavior

What is a non-scientific inference?

300
A research design in which a given size, all such subsets of the frame are given an equal probability of being selected.
What is simple random sampling?
300
Directly establishes cause-effect nature of relationship between variables
What is experimental psychology designs?
300

Measures the magnitude
of the DV using equal intervals between values with no absolute zero point.

What are interval scales?

300

Composed of laypeople and researchers, evaluate research proposals to make sure
that they follow ethical standards

What are institutional review boards (IRB)?

400

The principle that we prefer
the simplest useful explanation.

What is the principle of parsimony?

400
This research method relies on arranging the study population according to some ordering scheme and then selecting elements at regular intervals through that ordered list.
What is systematic sampling?
400
A small group of representative people who are questioned about their opinions as part of a research project.
What is a focus group?
400

Tendencies to respond
to questions or test items without regard to their actual wording.

What are response styles?

400

Respect for Persons

Justice

Beneficence

What are the three principles of the Belmont Report?

500

Experiments must establish this because causes must precede effects.

What is temporal precedence/relationship?

500
Where the population embraces a number of distinct categories, the frame can be organized by these categories into separate "strata."
What is Stratified sampling?
500
Research for asking questions: conducting research during which somebody is asked questions
What is an interview?
500

Involves a subject's description of personal subjective experience.

What is Phenomenology?

500

Perhaps the most important principle built into ethics codes is the right of a participant to refuse to be in the study or discontinue participation.

What is informed consent?

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