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Psychological Research
- Heinrch, Heine & Norenzayen (2009): 68% USA (67% are psychology undergraduates); 96% western industrialised countries. 96% of the samples are from 12% of the workds population
W.E.I.R.D Participants
- Western
- Continum: Independent - interdependent. Positive self regard Fundamental Atrribution error
- Educated
- Undergraduates are differentially educated. American College Students: - More individualistic - Less prejudice - Less conformist - Have looser social networks
- Industrialised
- Rich
- Democratic
- Western
Normtivity
- Samples are not just different the are extreme
- gather data that is representative of the whole
- make inferences about all people
Implications
- American & European participants not always the norm
- Clarity about populations and samples
- Think critically about the link between sample and claim
Planning
- Variables
- Clear to other research how we measured
- Design
- Overall structure & strategy of study
- Samples
- People in the study. we cannot study the entire population
- Variables
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- Research Methods 2 Mind Map on Psychological Research, created by Just_Yasmin on 11/05/2013.
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