PSYB1 - Research Methods

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Psychology Quiz sobre PSYB1 - Research Methods, criado por hutchinson184 em 15-05-2013.
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Questão 1

Questão
What is a debrief?
Responda
  • This is a way of correcting any ethical breaches in the research
  • Telling participants what the study is about and what is going to happen in the study and them allowing them to decide whether they want to take part or not

Questão 2

Questão
What is right to withdraw?
Responda
  • It is a way of correcting any ethical breaches in the study
  • Participants must be told at the beginning, during and after the study that they can leave the study at any time they want and for whatever reason they want

Questão 3

Questão
What is a dependant variable?
Responda
  • The thing you measure
  • Something that is changed by the experimentor
  • Something that could affect the experiment that isn't the independant variable

Questão 4

Questão
What is informed consent?
Responda
  • Participants should not be lied to about the true aim of the research
  • Telling participants what the study is about and what is going to happen in the study and them allowing them to decide whether they want to take part or not

Questão 5

Questão
What is Protection of Participants?
Responda
  • Participants should be told at the beginning (in the brief) that all information about them will be kept private and anonymous so that other cannot identify them
  • You must not do anything that could cause the participant physical or mental harm, abuse or misuse.

Questão 6

Questão
What is deception?
Responda
  • A way of correcting any ethical breaches in the research.
  • Participants should not be lied to about the true aim of the research

Questão 7

Questão
What is the mean?
Responda
  • The most common score in a set of data
  • The central number in a set of scores. To calculate this you must put the numbers in order from lowest to highest and then identify the value in the middle of the list
  • The average of all the scores in a data set. You add up all the numbers in the set of scores and divide by the number of scores that are there.

Questão 8

Questão
What is confidentiality?
Responda
  • Participants should not be lied to about the true aim of the research
  • Participants should be told at the beginning (in the brief) that all information about them will be kept private and anonymous so that others cannot identify them.
  • Telling participants what the study is about and what is going to happen in the study and then allowing them to decide whether they want to take part or not

Questão 9

Questão
What is deception?
Responda
  • A way of correcting any ethical breaches in the research.
  • Participants should not be lied to about the true aim of the research

Questão 10

Questão
What is the Median?
Responda
  • The central number in a set of scores. You must put all the scores in order from lowest to highest and then identify the number in the middle of the list.
  • The most common score in a set of data
  • The average of the scores in a data set. You add up all the scores and divide by the number of scores that are there.

Questão 11

Questão
What is the Median?
Responda
  • The central number in a set of scores. You must put all the scores in order from lowest to highest and then identify the number in the middle of the list.
  • The most common score in a set of data
  • The average of the scores in a data set. You add up all the scores and divide by the number of scores that are there.

Questão 12

Questão
What is the Median?
Responda
  • The central number in a set of scores. You must put all the scores in order from lowest to highest and then identify the number in the middle of the list.
  • The most common score in a set of data
  • The average of the scores in a data set. You add up all the scores and divide by the number of scores that are there.

Questão 13

Questão
What is the Median?
Responda
  • The central number in a set of scores. You must put all the scores in order from lowest to highest and then identify the number in the middle of the list.
  • The most common score in a set of data
  • The average of the scores in a data set. You add up all the scores and divide by the number of scores that are there.

Questão 14

Questão
What is the Median?
Responda
  • The central number in a set of scores. You must put all the scores in order from lowest to highest and then identify the number in the middle of the list.
  • The most common score in a set of data
  • The average of the scores in a data set. You add up all the scores and divide by the number of scores that are there.

Questão 15

Questão
What is the Median?
Responda
  • The central number in a set of scores. You must put all the scores in order from lowest to highest and then identify the number in the middle of the list.
  • The most common score in a set of data
  • The average of the scores in a data set. You add up all the scores and divide by the number of scores that are there.

Questão 16

Questão
What is the mode?
Responda
  • The central number in a set of scores. You must put all the scores in order from lowest to highest and then identify the number in the middle of the list.
  • The most common score in a set of data
  • The average of the scores in a set of data. You add up all the numbers in a set of scores and divide by the number of scores that are there.

Questão 17

Questão
What is the range?
Responda
  • A measure of the spread of a set of scores. Calculated by taking the lowest number from the highest in a set of data.
  • This measures how far on average each score in a set of data is away from the mean

Questão 18

Questão
What is the range?
Responda
  • A measure of the spread of a set of scores. Calculated by taking the lowest number from the highest in a set of data.
  • This measures how far on average each score in a set of data is away from the mean

Questão 19

Questão
What is Standard Deviation?
Responda
  • A measure of the spread of a set of scores calculated by subtracting the lowest value from the highest in a set of data.
  • This measures how far on average each score in a set of data is away from the mean.

Questão 20

Questão
What is Standard Deviation?
Responda
  • A measure of the spread of a set of scores calculated by subtracting the lowest value from the highest in a set of data.
  • This measures how far on average each score in a set of data is away from the mean.

Questão 21

Questão
What is a line graph used for?
Responda
  • To represent data which is in numerical form
  • To express correlations - allow you to see at a glance whether a correlation is positive, negative or if there is no relationship.
  • To represent data which is divided into categories

Questão 22

Questão
What is a Bar chart used for?
Responda
  • To represent data which is divided into categories
  • To represent data which is in numerical form
  • To express correlations (look for a relationship between 2 variables).

Questão 23

Questão
What is a scattergram used for?
Responda
  • To express correlations - allow you to see at a glance whether a correlation is positive, negative or if there is no relationship
  • To represent data which is in numerical form
  • To represent data which is divided into categories

Questão 24

Questão
What is a Bar chart used for?
Responda
  • To represent data which is divided into categories
  • To represent data which is in numerical form
  • To express correlations (look for a relationship between 2 variables).

Questão 25

Questão
What is Random Sampling?
Responda
  • Picking people who are easily/readily available to you
  • Choosing every Nth person from the target population
  • Everybody has an equal chance of being chosen

Questão 26

Questão
What is Opportuntiy Sampling?
Responda
  • Everybody has an equal chance of being chosen
  • Picking people who are easily/readily available to you
  • Selecting participants according to the proportions of the target population

Questão 27

Questão
What is Systematic Sampling?
Responda
  • Choosing people who are easily/readily available to you
  • Selecting the participants according to the proportions of the target population that are relevant to the sample and study.
  • Choosing every Nth person from the target population

Questão 28

Questão
What is Stratified Sampling?
Responda
  • Selecting the participants according to the proportions of the target population that are relevant to the sample and study.
  • Choosing every Nth person from the target population
  • Picking people who are easily/readily available

Questão 29

Questão
What is Stratified Sampling?
Responda
  • Selecting the participants according to the proportions of the target population that are relevant to the sample and study.
  • Choosing every Nth person from the target population
  • Picking people who are easily/readily available

Questão 30

Questão
What is Quantitative Research?
Responda
  • Any data to do with a number
  • Measuring behaviour in a descriptive way

Questão 31

Questão
What is Qualitative Research?
Responda
  • Any data to do with a number
  • Measuring behaviour in a descriptive way

Questão 32

Questão
What is Qualitative Research?
Responda
  • Any data to do with a number
  • Measuring behaviour in a descriptive way

Questão 33

Questão
What is an aim?
Responda
  • A prediction of results
  • A statement of what you intend to investigate

Questão 34

Questão
What is a hypothesis?
Responda
  • A statement of what you intend to investigate
  • A prediction of results

Questão 35

Questão
What is an independant variable?
Responda
  • The thing you measure
  • Something that could affect the experiment that isn't the independant variable
  • Something that is changed by the experimentor

Questão 36

Questão
What is an extraneous variable?
Responda
  • Something that could affect the experiment that isn't the independant variable
  • The thing you measure
  • Something that is changed by the experimentor

Questão 37

Questão
What is an extraneous variable?
Responda
  • Something that could affect the experiment that isn't the independant variable
  • The thing you measure
  • Something that is changed by the experimentor

Questão 38

Questão
What is participant bias?
Responda
  • When participants guess the aim and behave differently (demand characteristics)
  • When participants are tired of doing experiments so therefore it affects results

Questão 39

Questão
What is participant bias?
Responda
  • When participants guess the aim and behave differently (demand characteristics)
  • When participants are tired of doing experiments so therefore it affects results

Questão 40

Questão
What is the independant groups design?
Responda
  • Participants are matched into pairs on relevant variables e.g. same age
  • All the sample go into one conditonal (experimental) then they all go to the other condition (control)
  • This is when half of the sample go into one condition (control) and the other half go into the other condition (experimental)

Questão 41

Questão
What is the repeated measures design?
Responda
  • All the sample go to one condition and then they all go into the other condition
  • Participants are matched into pairs on relevant variables e.g. same age
  • This is when half of the sample go into one condition then the other half go into the other condition

Questão 42

Questão
What is the independant groups design?
Responda
  • Participants are matched into pairs on relevant variables e.g. same age
  • All the sample go into one conditonal (experimental) then they all go to the other condition (control)
  • This is when half of the sample go into one condition (control) and the other half go into the other condition (experimental)

Questão 43

Questão
What is the matched pairs design?
Responda
  • When half of the sample go into one condition and the other half go into the other condition
  • Participants are matched into pairs on relevant variables e.g. same age
  • All of the sample go into one condition then they all go to the other condition

Questão 44

Questão
What is a lab study?
Responda
  • Experiments that are conducted in a well controlled environment
  • A study that is done in the participants natural environment

Questão 45

Questão
What is a field study?
Responda
  • A study that is conducted in a well controlled environment
  • A study that is done in the participants natural environment

Questão 46

Questão
What is a field study?
Responda
  • A study that is conducted in a well controlled environment
  • A study that is done in the participants natural environment

Questão 47

Questão
What is a Quasi Study?
Responda
  • A study that is conducted in the participants natural environment
  • A study in which the independant variable is changed by natural occurance. If conditions vary naturally the effect of an IV can be observed without any intervention by the experimenter

Questão 48

Questão
What is an Overt Observation?
Responda
  • Participants dont know they are being watched
  • An observation where the researcher takes part in the action, joining in with those being observed.
  • When the participants know they are being observed

Questão 49

Questão
What is a covert observation?
Responda
  • Where the researcher does not become part of the group of which they are being observed
  • Participants don't know they are being watched

Questão 50

Questão
What is a Natural Observation?
Responda
  • An observation conduction in an experimental setting
  • Observing the behaviour in the participants own natural environment
  • When the participants don't know they are being watched

Questão 51

Questão
What is a Participation Observation?
Responda
  • An observation where the researcher takes part in the action, joining in with those being observed
  • When a participant is being observed in their own natural environment

Questão 52

Questão
What is a Lab Observation?
Responda
  • An observation when the participants know they are being observed
  • An observation conducted in an experimental setting

Questão 53

Questão
What is a Lab Observation?
Responda
  • An observation when the participants know they are being observed
  • An observation conducted in an experimental setting

Questão 54

Questão
What is a Lab Observation?
Responda
  • An observation when the participants know they are being observed
  • An observation conducted in an experimental setting

Questão 55

Questão
What is a Non-Participant Observation?
Responda
  • This is an observation when the participants don't know they are being watched
  • Where the researcher does not become part of the group of which they are being observed

Questão 56

Questão
What is a structured interview?
Responda
  • An interview where the interviewer starts with a topic then the participants responses influence the next question
  • An interview where the interviewer has a pre-set list of questions and do not ask any other questions

Questão 57

Questão
What is an unstructured interview?
Responda
  • An interview where the interviewer starts with one topic then the participants responses influence the next question
  • A interview where the interviewer has a pre-set list of questions and do not ask anything else

Questão 58

Questão
What is an unstructured interview?
Responda
  • An interview where the interviewer starts with one topic then the participants responses influence the next question
  • A interview where the interviewer has a pre-set list of questions and do not ask anything else

Questão 59

Questão
What is an unstructured interview?
Responda
  • An interview where the interviewer starts with one topic then the participants responses influence the next question
  • A interview where the interviewer has a pre-set list of questions and do not ask anything else

Questão 60

Questão
What is an open-ended question?
Responda
  • A question that is worded so that the person can answer in anyway chosen
  • A question that the respondant may only answer according to a formal system e.g. answers are given as options

Questão 61

Questão
What is a close ended question?
Responda
  • A question that is worded so that the person can answer in anyway chosen
  • A question that the respondant may only answer according to a formal system e.g. answers are given as options

Questão 62

Questão
What is content analysis?
Responda
  • An indirect observation of the media and images in it
  • An in depth examination of one individual/a small group of individuals with something in common

Questão 63

Questão
What is a case study?
Responda
  • An indirect observation of the media and images in it
  • An in depth examination of one individuals/a small group of individuals with something in common

Questão 64

Questão
What is a case study?
Responda
  • An indirect observation of the media and images in it
  • An in depth examination of one individuals/a small group of individuals with something in common

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