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Data Recording, Analysis And Presentation Flashcards

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How is raw data designed?

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By using a tally short which summarises the data

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What’s the use of raw data tables?

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To get an overview of the data and see if there are any anomalies so the correct measure of central tendency can be used

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Nominal level data

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Categories of behaviour

Doesn’t tell us anything about the behaviour

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Ordinal level data

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Ranked order

Shows what ppts did the behaviour most or least

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Interval level data

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Level of measurement

Very Detailed as tells us most bout each ppt

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Ratio level data

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Type of interval

Data can’t go below 0

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Primary data

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Carry out own research and data is gathered directly from participants
Researcher knows exactly what controls were put in place etc but sometimes psychologists can’t carry out research themselves

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Secondary data

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Data that already exists
Good as can gather data that is too expensive to carry out by psychologists
May not be valid or reliable and there may be EV’s

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Qualitative data

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Data in form of words
Tells us experiences of ppts
Hard for comparisons to be made

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Quantitative data

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Data in the form of numbers
Allows comparisons to be made
Easily summarised
Reliability is easy to be found as results can be repeated

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11
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Measures of central tendency

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Mean
Median
Mode

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What measure of central tendency do you use with interval level data?

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Mean

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What measure of central tendency do you use with ordinal level data?

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Median

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What measure of central tendency do you use with nominal level data?

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Mode

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Measures of dispersion

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Range
Variance
Standard deviation

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Range

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Subtract lowest from highest and add 1 or 0.1

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17
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What measure of dispersion do you use with interval level data?

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Standard deviation and range

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Variance

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Measures how much a set of numbers is spread out
0 variance shows they are identical
A small variance shows they are close to each other
A high variance shows the data is spread out

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19
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Standard deviation

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More detailed as it uses every piece of data

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Ratios

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A way of expressing proportions of a whole population

21
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Frequency table

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Shows the tally of behaviours

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Pie chard

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Show each behaviour as a proportion of the total

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Line graph

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Useful to show behaviour over time

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Bar chart

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Useful and meaningful way of presenting data

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Histogram

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Can only be used if the data is continuous (0-3 4-6)

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Scatter diagram

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Graph that represents a correlation
Psychologists can work out direction and strength of the correlation
They show any outliers

27
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Proportionality

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As one variable increases by a certain amount, the other increases by the same proportion

28
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Inverse proportion

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If one variables doubles, the other will half

29
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Convert a fraction to a percentage

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Divide top by bottom times 100

30
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Convert percentage to fraction

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Write down the percentage over 100. Simplify the fraction, if it isn’t a whole number, multiply top and bottom by 10 for every no after decimal point

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To find the amount a percentage represents

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Divide the amount/total by 100 and times by the percentage

32
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To find the number represented by a fraction

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Divide amount/total by bottom and times it by the top

33
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Normal distribution curve

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Data about behaviour from a representative sample of a target population will be a curve of normal distribution
A normal curve is when all the measures of central tendency occur at the highest point of the curve

34
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Skewed distribution curve

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When the distribution curve represents data from an unusual set of data (mean diff from mode)

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Negatively skewed curve

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Fewer people at the lower end and more at the higher end of the scores
Mean and mode are different

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Positively skewed curve

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Most the population have more low scores than high

37
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Probability

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Psychologists want to know what the probability is that the IV affected the DV, if there is a low probability they won’t believe it had an affect

38
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Level of significance

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The level that psychologists reject the null hypothesis is 95% (95% chance IV affected the DV and 5% chance it being due to chance)
If there was a need for the results to be as certain as possible (impacting society) it can be set at 99% or if the sample is small it can be set at 90%

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What does p

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Probability of results being due to chance is less than 5%

40
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How do psychologists find out the significance level?

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Using statistical tests

41
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Inferential statistical tests

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Chi square
Binomial sign
Mann Whitney U
Wilcoxon signed rank 
Chi square
Spearmans rho
42
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Criteria for using a non parametric inferential test

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What level of data is being used
Is it a test of difference or correlation
If it is a test of difference does it use am independent or repeated measures design

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Criteria for using a parametric test

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The data has to be interval or ratio
The data has to have a curve of normal distribution
The variances should be similar
Should be no extreme scores

44
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Type 1 error

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Accepting the alternative hypothesis when there is no difference
We believe IV has affected DV when it hasn’t
Behaviour is due to chance
Conducting to lenient of a test
Can avoid this by setting significance level higher (0.01) but this might cause a type 2 error

45
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Type 2 error

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Rejecting the alternative hypothesis and accepting a null hypothesis when the IV is actually affecting the DV
Being too strict and setting the significance level too high

46
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What is raw data?

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The data that psychologists collect for each participant

Psychology - Research Methods (6 decks)

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