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1
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What is a way of sampling behaviour in an observation where it is coded every time it is seen?

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Event sampling

2
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What is a sampling technique where participants volunteer themselves for the research?

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Self-selecting

3
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What is usually not obtained when conducting observations?

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Consent

4
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What is a way of sampling behaviour in an observation where it is coded at certain intervals, e.g. every 30 seconds?

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Time sampling

5
Q

What is it difficult to control in observations?

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Confounding variables

6
Q

What is an example of an ethical issue?

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Deception

7
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What is the type of study where a participant is studied over a long period of time?

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Case study

8
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What is the type of correlation where both variables increase with one another?

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Positive

9
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What problem can observations suffer from, due to the fact that they can be interpreted in a biased way?

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Subjective

10
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What is the type of correlation where as one variable increases, the other one decreases?

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Negative

11
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What do observations have a lot of?

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Ecological validity

12
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What sampling technique is though to be the most representative of a target population?

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Random

13
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What is it difficult to do with data from a case study?

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Generalise

14
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What can we not establish using correlations?

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Cause and effect

15
Q

More often than not, what kind of data is collected from an interview?

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Qualitative

16
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What is the term used to refer to whether we are measuring what we claim to measure?

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Validity

17
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More often than not, what kind of data is collected from questionnaires?

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Quantitative

18
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What is the term used to refer to the consistency of something time after time?

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Reliability