Self-Reports
Questionnaires come in two types of questions.
What are closed questions and open questions?
There are two environments in which an observation can be conducted.
What are naturalistic and controlled?
A testable statement saying that any difference or correlation in results is due to chance.
What is a null hypothesis?
There are three sampling techniques.
What are opportunity, volunteer and random sampling?
There are three ways to find measures of central tendency.
What are mean, median, and mode?
List the three types of interviews.
What are structured, semi-structured, and unstructured interviews?
Similar to inter-rater reliability, this is the consistency between two researchers watching the same event.
The main hypothesis in a study.
What is an alternative hypothesis.
This is the group of people selected to represent the population in a study.
What is the mode?
Name the way to check differences between researchers in questionnaires.
What is inter-rater reliability?
Observers can either be a part of the experiment or not.
What are participant observers and non-participant observers?
Hypotheses are predicted in two different ways.
What are non-directional (two-tailed) and directional (one-tailed) hypotheses?
Often gathered via a public announcement, newspaper post, mail, etc.
What is a volunteer sample?
A set if quantitative results can be summarised to one number that represents the typical score, called this.
What is the measure of central tendancy?
A view that is not led by one's own feelings or beliefs.
What is objectivity?
This type of observation is when the observer only records a limited range of behaviors.
What is a structured observation?
This type of hypothesis can say, "There will be no difference in the DV between condition X and condition Y."
What is a null hypothesis?
This sampling technique is the most likely to be representative of all types of people in a population.
What is random sampling?
The indicator of how varied the results are within a data set.
What is the measure of spread?
People do this during questionnaires & interviews to appear more acceptable to the public.
What is social desirability bias?
There are the activities recorded in an observation.
What are behavioral categories?
This type of hypothesis for a correlation study may say, "There will be a negative correlation between the number of computer games a student plays and their grade."
What is a directional hypothesis?
In this sampling technique, all members of the population are allocated numbers and a fixed amount of these are selected in an unbiased manner.
What is random sampling?
This is found by subtracting the smallest value in a data set from the largest an adding one.
What is the range?