Data that is expressed in words and non-numerical data
What is qualitative data?
100
The arithmetic average calculated by adding up all the values in a set of data and dividing up the number of values there are.
What is the mean?
100
When a participant only fulfils one condition (usually experimental or control).
What is independent groups design.
100
A testable, predictable statement that states the relationship between the variables to be investigated.
What is a hypothesis?
100
People might lie.
What is a problem with self report techniques?
200
Information that has already been collected by someone else and so predates the current research study.
What is secondary data?
200
The mode.
What is a measure of central tendency which is the most frequently occurring value in a set of data?
200
Boredom, fatigue and amelioration effect.
What are some examples of order effects?
200
It means to make something measurable or quantifiable.
What is operationalization?
200
To check that the method is correct, e.g. that instructions and timing do not act as extraneous variables. It also tells the researcher whether a large scale study is warranted.
What is a pilot study?
300
It is research about research, i.e. it is not conducting a new experiment, but drawing together other studies to give an overview.
What is meta-analysis?
300
It is skewed by outliers.
What is a disadvantage of using the mean?
300
Age, intelligence, mental health, class.
What are some examples of participant variables?
300
Whether it was on land or under water.
What was the IV in Godden and Baddeley?
300
It is not influenced by outliers.
What is an advantage of using the median as a mode of central tendency?
400
Data that is categorical.
What is nominal data?
400
A sophisticated measure of dispersion in a set of scores.
What is standard deviation?
400
An attempt to control for the effects of order in a repeated measures design. Half the pps experience the conditions in one order and the other half in the opposite order.
What is counterbalancing?
400
It was the accuracy of recall of the team names in the rugby season.
What was the DV in Baddeley and Hitch?
400
When everything is made the same to allow for internal reliability e.g. the same prods being used in Milgram.
What is standardisation?
500
Data that has a true zero and is more accurate than interval data.
What is ratio data?
500
It would suggest that all scores were very close to the mean.
If you had a narrow bell curve, what would that suggest about the data?
500
Monozygotic twins reared in the same environment.
What would be an ideal matched pair?
500
When previous research has already been conducted or you have a sound reason to predict the outcome of the study.
When would you use a directional hypothesis.
500
A scale in which the respondent indicates their agreement (or otherwise) with a statement using a scale of usually five points, for example, strongly agree, agree etc.