Sampling
Ethical Considerations
Interview methods
Definitions
Validity and Reliability
100
A sample that is representative of the target population.
What is a representative sample?
100

"Fooling" the participants into thinking the study is about something it is not, allowed only in special circumstances.

What is deception?

100

Taking a hypothesis and testing empirical evidence so that it can be either accepted or rejected

What is a deductive, experimental approach?

100
a multidisciplinary science that includes knowledge from the natural and social sciences (biology, sociology, anthropology).
What is psychology?
100
When research does what it claims to do.
What is validity?
200
A sample of whoever happens to be present and agrees to participate.
What is opportunity sampling or convenience sampling?
200

Description/name of a study that did not provide for adequate or informed consent

What is little albert, milgram, monster study(stuttering children)?

200

Having an open-ended, research approach, which invites detailed descriptions and, if possible, explanations for in how people experience every-day situations 

What is an inductive, qualitative approach?

200
The study of mental processes and behavior.
What is psychology?
200
When the results of a study can be replicated. When another researcher uses exactly the same procedure, the study should produce the same results.
What is reliability?
300
When participants recruit other participants from among their friends and acquaintances.
What is a snowball sampling?
300
This ethical consideration says participants should be told that they have a right to leave the study at any time.
What is withdrawal from a study?
300

Attempt to describe in-depth meanings attributed to events by the research participants (rather than establishing cause-effect). Acknowledged to be more subjective.

What is a qualitative researcher's goal?

300
This type of psychologist carries out brain scans to try to get a picture of processes in the brain.
What is a neuropsychologist?
300
When the study represents what happens in real-life.
What is ecological validity?
400
A sample in which every member of the target population has an equal chance of being selected.
What is random sampling?
400

Peoples' names and personal information may not be associated with the information obtained in a study.

What is confidentiality/anonymity?

400

When the interview schedule states exactly what questions should be asked, as well as the order of the questions.

What is a structured interview?

400
Is based on the values and beliefs of one's own culture at the expense of taking into consideration others' beliefs and cultures.
What is ethnocentrism?
400

Two factors that can limit the internal validity of a study

What are demand characteristics, measurement,instrumentation, selection, maturation, testing effects, history, mortality, experimenter bias.

500
Draws random samples from each subpopulation within the target population.
What is a stratified sample?
500
Two well-known unethical studies about power and authority known to have caused real harm and not to have debriefed subjects adequately.

What are Milgram study and Zimbardo Prison study?

500

  1. A group conversation feels much more natural, and 2. listening to others may actually spark ideas and encourage conversation

 3. this method also saves time as several people can be interviewed in a shorter period of time.

What are the benefits of focus groups?

500
The purpose of a study.
What is the aim of a study?
500

Daily Double: triangulation

What is a both a data and methodological tool to include more perspectives, analysis and increase validity of your study

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