When participants in an experiment experience all conditions (i.e. all manipulations of the IV)
What is a repeated measures design?
100
When the IV is naturally occurring.
What is a natural experiment?
100
Being able to leave the research at any time.
What is the right to withdraw?
100
A group of participants that take part in the research.
What is a sample?
200
A factor that is manipulated by the researcher/s.
What is an independent variable?
200
When participants are separated into different conditions and experience different manipulations of the IV.
What is an independent samples design?
200
When the IV is manipulated in a real-life situation or setting.
What is a field experiment?
200
Killing an animal to end its suffering or to reduce life-long suffering as a result of research.
What is euthanization?
200
An entire population that the researcher/s is interested in investigating.
What is a target population?
300
To determine a cause and effect relationship between two variables.
What is the aim of an experiment in psychology?
300
When the participants don't know if they are in the treatment or control group.
What is a single-blind study?
300
An in-depth investigation of an individual, organisation or small group.
What is a case-study?
300
Telling the participants at the end of the study what the study was about and what the results were.
What is debriefing?
300
Gathering participants by asking whoever is available at the time.
What is opportunity sampling? (Also known as convenience sampling)
400
Any possible factor, other than the IV, that may have influenced the DV.
What is a confounding variable?
400
When participants are allocated to different conditions through a random selection process.
What is random allocation?
400
A study that is conducted over a long period of time.
What is a longitudinal study?
400
When participants are misled in a study and are wrongly led to believe false information.
What is deception?
400
Gathering a sample by asking participants to ask other people to volunteer for the research.
What is snowball sampling?
500
The phenomenon whereby people alter their behaviour because of a desire to be viewed in a positive manner.
What is the social desirability effect?
500
When participants are paired together based on particular characteristics and then randomly assigned separately to different conditions in the experiment.
What is matched pairs design?
500
When researchers gather lots of data already gathered from previous research studies and they find correlations in the existing data.
What is a meta-analysis?
500
A group of people formed for the purpose of reviewing the ethicality of a particular research study and to make recommendations regarding the methodology of the study.
What is an Institutional Review Board?
500
The process of gathering a sample that is representative of the target population; there is a high probability that the results of the sample can be generalised to the target population.