Procedures include controlled experiments, surveys, interviews and case studies.
What is data collection?
100
A general prediction about the direction of interaction between the IV and DV. Also includes the population from which the sample is drawn.
What is a research hypothesis?
100
The larger group of research interest from which a sample is drawn.
What is a "population"?
100
Differences in the way that a test is delivered or administered to participants.
What is non standardised procedures?
200
Such effects are often revealed by measures of performance, such as test scores, or number of goals scored.
What is the dependent variable?
200
In psychological research you need to come up with a testable prediction about the relationship between two or more variables (events or charactersistics).
What is formulating a hypothesis?
200
That which is manipulated.
What is the independent variable?
200
A technique that ensures that every member of the sample has an equal chance of being assigned to either groups.
What is random allocation?
200
An extraneous variable that can influence results such as an unnatural environment, or participants behaving in a way that is not natural to their behaviour.
What is artificiality?
300
A study that investigates a cause-and-effect relationship between two or more variables.
What is an experiment?
300
The research determines who will participate in the study and how to sample them, how many participants are required for the study, what participants will do and what will be measured.
What is method design?
300
A testable prediction that explains exactly how the variables will be measured and manipulated, aswell as the population from which the sample is drawn.
What is an operationalised hypothesis?
300
Must represent the population from which it is drawn in order for inferences to be made about the population. It is a subsection of a population.
What is a sample?
300
The participants are unaware of who is in the control and experimental groups.
What is single-blind procedures?
400
Explains what each variable is and how it will be measured.
What is an operationalised variable?
400
Must conduct a literature search which involves finding and reading relevant articles on an area that needs investigating.
What is identifying the research problem?
400
That which is being measured.
What is the dependent variable?
400
Group (or groups) exposed to where the variable is being manipulated-IV-is present.
What is an experimental group?
400
Seeks to eradicate participant differences. Involves pairing each participant based on a certain characteristic that they share.
What is matched participants design?
500
Put simply, this is identified by looking at what is different between the experimental conditions.
What is the independent variable?
500
Organising, summarising and representing data. Can involve raw data and descriptive statistics.
What is data analysis?
500
The entire group of people belonging to a particular category that is of research interest.
What is "population"?
500
Provides a basis for comparison, so that performance can be compared with a base level. The variable under investigation is absent.
What is the control group?
500
Allows researcher to make inferences about the results of an experiment. Allows researchers to apply findings about the behaviour of small groups (samples) to the larger groups they represent (populations).