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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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