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Psychological research methods

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What is a hypothesis?

a testable prediction

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What is the difference between a population and sample?

Population is where the sample is drawn from

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What is the independent variable?

Condition that an experimenter systematically manipulates

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Name each dependent variable in Dement and Kleitman

Dream during REM/NREM, Length of dream, content

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What was used as a control group in Schachter and Singer's research?

Misinformed and placebo

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How was 'object offer' operationalised in Yamamoto et al.?

Helper held out object, only first object counted, correct/incorrect tool offer

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What is meant by ecological validity?

How accurately the results can be applied to real life

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What is a disadvantage of the quantitative data used in Saavedra and Silverman?

Lacks reliability, difficult to interpret, researcher bias

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What is an example of how order effects could be a problem in Laney et al.?

Responses may change on the questionnaires were done twice such as the food questionnaires

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What ethical guidelines could cause demand characteristics and give an example of a piece of research this is not shown in.

Deception, informed consent. e.g. Piliavin et al there was not informed consent

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Identify one example of quantitative data collected in Bandura et al.

number of times child hit doll with mallet, number of b/g showing physical aggression, etc.

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Where was the sample in Andrade from?

Participant panel from the general public who were members of an Applied Psychology Unit participant panel

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In what study was a structured interview used?

Schachter and Singer

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In which research was counterbalancing used in order to try and avoid order effects?

Andrade

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What are the three measures of central tendency we look at?

mean, mode, median

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What is meant by mundane realism?

How much a study mirrors the real world such as task environment

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