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Deception

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Withholding or lying to participants

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Informed consent

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Participants of research being told what’s happening and them saying yes

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Right to withdraw

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Being able to leave when the participants wants

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Protection from harm

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Ensuring the participants safety, no physical, emotional or mental harm

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Confidentiality

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Being able to tell people in private and knowing it will be kept a secret

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Debriefing

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A way of dealing with deception. Tell the participants the true nature of the study and ask whether they want to withdraw. Normally done after the study

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Presumptive consent

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Asking a different group for their opinion/consent on a research. Not the people doing the experiment

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Aim

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Idea or main focus of your study

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Hypothesis

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A prediction

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Independent variable

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Thing you change

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Dependant variable

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Thing you measure

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Directional hypothesis

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One will do better than the other

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Non directional hypothesis

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One will do differently than the other

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Privacy

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Beef private and knowing you’re not being tested randomly

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Operationalised

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When your id and dv are specific enough to test and measure

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Closed questions

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Questions that have specific answers, yes or no, or participants chose answers from ones provided

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Interview

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A research method or technique that involves a face-to-face real time interaction with an individual

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Open question

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Questions that invite the respondents to provide their own answers rather than select one of those provided

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Questionnaire

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Data are collected through the use of written questions

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Structured interview

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Any interview in which the questions are decided in advance

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Unstructured interview

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The interviewer starts out with some general aims and possibly some questions and lets the interviewees answer guide subsequent questions

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Lab experiment

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An experiment conducted in a special environment where variables can be carefully controlled. Participants are aware they are in an experiment

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Field experiment

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Experiment conducted in a more natural environment and the iv is deliberately manipulated, participants not aware that they are taking part

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Natural experiment

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Experiment where the environment is natural but the change is also natural- not manual change

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Independent groups

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Participants are allocated two or more groups representing different experimental condition

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Repeated measure

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Each participant takes part in every condition under test

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Matched pairs

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Pairs of participants are matched in terms of key variables. One member of each pair is placed in the experimental group and the other in the control group

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Content analysis

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A systematic research technique analysing texts of various types

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Mean

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Adding all the numbers up and dividing by how many numbers their are

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Median

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Middle value in the ordered list

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Mode

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Most common

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Nominal

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The data are in separate categories

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Ordinal

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Data are ordered in the same way- the difference between each answer is not the same

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Interval p

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Data are measures using units of equal intervals

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Range

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Difference between the highest and he lowest

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Standard deviation

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The spread of the data around the mean

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Internal validity

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The degree to which the independent variable causes the changes seen in the dependent variable

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Predictive validity

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Helps predict future behaviour

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Face validity

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Whether the gets appeared to measure what it claimed to of

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Concurrent validity

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The degree to which a test corresponds to an external criterion that is know concurrently

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Construct validity

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Refers to the ability of a measurement tool to actually measure the psychological concept being studied

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Validity

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The extent to which a test measures what it claims to measure

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External validity

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Refers to the extent to which the results of a study can be generalised

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Ecological validity

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Test measures behaviour which it true to real life

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Historical validity

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Refers to the time results were obtained in history

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Population validity

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How well the sample can be used to represent the population as a whole

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Correlation

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Relationship between two variables

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Extraneous variables

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Variables that influence the relationship between variables

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Demand characteristics

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Where the participants form an interpretation of the experiments purpose and unconsciously change their behaviour

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Opportunity sample

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Ask people who you first see e.g. People who pass you by in the streets

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Volunteer sample

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Advertise in a newspaper or notice board

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Random sample

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Using random selection to chose participants e.g drawing numbers

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Reliability

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A measure of how consistent an experiment is as we can replicate it and get the same results

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Inter rate reliability

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Comparing your results with a penal of psychologists and them getting virtually the same results