Miscellaneous
Most research in psychology uses ________ sampling.
What is convenience sampling ?
This can be reduced by using a double blind procedure
What is experimenter bias?
I review and approve research proposals to ensure ethical standards
What is the IRB
An Example of a qualitative research design
What is a thematic analysis, program evaluation, grounded theory, case study, ethnographic inquiry etc.?
The researcher’s expected outcome of an experiment.
What is a hypothesis
____ is used to ensure that every member of the population has an equal chance of being selected
What is random sampling in research?
The major threat to internal validity that occurs in studies that last for a significant period of time (e.g., five years)
What is attrition?
The ethical principle and activity that ensures that participants are aware of the nature of the study and their role in it
The type of data is most commonly used in qualitative research
What is Textual, visual, or verbal data?
The writing style guide and formatting typically used in psychology
What is APA 7th edition
The degree to which the study’s findings can be generalized to real-world situations
What is external validity?
What happens to control subjects depends on what happens to members of the experimental group
(Type of control group)
What is a yolked control?
The ethical obligation of researchers once their research is completed with each participant
What is debriefing?
____ is a method that investigates individual lives of those who exemplify some particular attribute (e.g., exceptional memory) or the circumstances involved with some rare and unusual event (e.g., a nuclear accident)
What is a case study
When a result of an analysis is _____ it is a result that is unlikely to occur by chance alone.
what is statistically significant
A variable that affects the dependent variable but is not controlled in the study
What is a confounding variable?
____ is the simplest way to evaluate threats to internal validity due to history, maturation, and regression
What is including a control group?
Examples of Vulnerable and protected populations
What are: Children, pregnant people, incarcerated individuals, individuals with cognitive disabilities etc.?
_________ is the primary focus of descriptive research methods
What is describe behavior in its natural context?
The main goal of a _______ is to help researchers generate new ideas
What is conducting a literature review
A 2x3x2 factorial design has 12
What are conditions?
A study by evaluating the effectiveness of peer-led activity to typing compared two groups, one using the groups, the other one on one. The researchers first tested the students for "typing speed" and insured that the average scores of students in the two group were the same. The design used here was a two-level ___________ design.
What is a matched group design?
The __________ was a result of a United States congressional commission, and it contains three basic principles for research with human participants: Respect for persons, Beneficence, and Justice.
What is the Belmont report?
Researchers using ________ will use both inductive and deductive reasoning to analyze patterns of responses from qualitative data, often without predefined categories of variables.
What is thematic analysis?
Finding something unexpected while searching for something else
What is "serendipity"