Experiments
An experimental design in which a different group of participants is used for each level of the IV
What is independent measures design
Knowing enough about a study to decide whether you want to agree to participate.
What is informed consent?
A research method that uses written questions.
What is a questionaire?
The role of the observer is not obvious because they are hidden or diguised.
What is a covert observer?
A testable statement predicting a difference between levels of the independent variable.
What is a hypothesis?
An experimental design where each participant performs in every level of the IV.
What is repeated measures?
Participants' results and personal information being kept safely and not released to anyone outside of the study.
What is confidentiality?
Questionaire, interveiw or test itmens that produce quantitative data. They only hava a few, stated alternative responses and no opportunity to expand on answers.
What is a closed question?
A study conducted by watching the participants behaviour in an enviournment that has been manipulated by the researchers.
What is a controlled observation?
A statement predicting the direction of a relationship between variables.
What is a one-tailed hypothesis?
Applying the findings of a study more widely (to other settings and populations)
What is generalization?
What is the right to withdraw?
A personal vewipoint that can be biased by one's feelings beliefs or experinces, (is not independent of the situation).
What is subjectivity?
A study conducted by watching the participants' behaviour in their normal enviornment with interference from the researchers.
What is a natualistic observation?
The testable statement which predicts a difference or relationship bwrween variables.
What is an alternative hypothesis?
A situation where participants' performance improves because they have experienced an experimental task more than once
What is the fatigue effect?
Participants' emotions and physical space not being invaded.
What is privacy?
When two researchers interperet qualitiative responses in a questionaire and they produce the same records from the same raw data.
What is inter-rater reliability?
A study in which the observer records only a limited range of behaviors.
What is a structured observation?
A tesrable statement saying that any difference or correlation in the resultsid due to chance.
What is a null hypothesis?
A situation where participants' performance improves because they have experienced the experimental task more than once (familiarity with task).
What is the practice effect?
Trying to presednt oneself in the best light by determining what a test is asking.
What is social desirability bias?
The activites recorded in an observation (they should be operationalised and must be observational actions).
What are behavioral categories?
A statement predicting that onlt one variable will be related to another.
What is a two-tailed hypthesis?