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Flashcards by Anneliese Shaw, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Anneliese Shaw
about 10 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Research Question | A carefully worded question stating precisely what a researcher is trying to find out in a study |
| Rigour | A careful and thorough approach to methods and argument. To work with systemic integrity |
| Quantitative Methods | Methods which generate data that can be measured, counted or expressed in numerical terms |
| Cognitive Psychology | The study of internal mental processes such as persception, attention, etc. |
| Measurement | To apply a numerical measure according to a fixed, defined rule. |
| Standardisation | The process of ensuring that all participants undergo the same treatment and that all data are recorded in the same way. |
| Objectivity | Judgement based on observable phenomena and without the influence of personal opinion, emotion or bias |
| Qualitative Methods | Methods which generate data that are not in numerical form. eg interviews and written text. |
| Structured Interview | Asking the same questions of all participants, in the same order |
| semi-structured interviews | Questions are prepared in advance but the interviewer may ask additional questions during the interview in response to the participants comments. |
| Unstructured Interviews | These are the most flexible, beginning with a provisional list of questions which will be adapted to each participant, suiting details as they unfold. |
| Ethnography | A research approach where the researcher carries out extensive observations of a group through being involved in its activities over a period of time. |
| Subjectivity | Knowledge and understanding arising from personal involvement and experience. |
| Hypothesis | A researcher's prediction about what will happen when a quantitative study is conducted. |
| Pseudo-sciences | The appearance of scientific methods but lacking in proper application of those methods. |
| Self-report | Any method of collection data that asks participants to supply information about themselves. |
| Demand effects | The effects on behaviour when participants are aware of taking part in research and adapt their behaviour as a consequence. |
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