Experimental Method and Research Issues
The variable that is not altered in an experiment.
What is a Dependent Variable?
One type of experiment design
What are independent groups, repeated measures or matched pairs design?
One type of experiment.
One type of Observation?
What are naturalistic, controlled, covert, overt, participant and non-participant observations?
What is the fact that a non-directional hypothesis only states that there is a difference?
The experiment design where each group experiences a different condition.
What is independent groups design?
The definition for internal validity.
What is validity that comes from an experiment not having demand characteristics and investigator effects not skewing results?
The observation type that occurs without the participants being aware they are being observed.
What is a covert observation?
The sample type that is the most representative of population and uses strata.
What is a stratified sample?
The process of clearly defining variables in terms of how they can be measured.
The term used for when participants are assigned difference conditions in independent group design.
What is random allocation?
What is a Natural experiment?
The strength to a naturalistic observation.
What is the fact that they have high external validity and can be generalised to wider settings?
The type of experiment that has both the experimenter and participant not knowing the aims of the experiment.
The definition of an Aim.
What is a general statement of what the researcher intends to investigate?
The strength of matched pairs designs.
What is the fact that order effects are less of an issue?
The limiting factor from a laboratory experiment.
What is the fact that it may lack generalisability and participants may not behave as they normally would?
The term used for when a target behaviour or event is first established then the researcher records this event each time it occurs.
What is event sampling?
The method psychologists use to deal with deception and protection from harm.
What is giving participants the right to withdraw or withhold data?
What are variables that affect are uncontrolled and effect the experiment, variables that can affect the experiment, variables that are measured, variables that are controlled and variables that are changed?
Two evaluative points of Repeated measures.
What is the fact that order effects may effect behaviour and participants are reused meaning participants variables are controlled and less time spent recruiting?
Two evaluative points of Quasi-experiments.
What are the fact that they are replicable but the IV is not directly changed by the investigator so we cannot claim that the IV has caused any observed change?
The definition for inter-observer reliability.
The date did the British Psychology Society create the code of the conduct (+ or -5 years leeway).
What is the year 1985?