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| What is Standard Deviation? |
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| How far the scores are spread from the mean |
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| What are the 3 different types of research design methods? |
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| Experimental, Qualitative, Quantitative |
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| What happens in a experimental reseach design |
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| The researcher manipulateds the independent variable |
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| What are the advantages of an experimental research design? |
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- As well as controlling the Independent variable, the experimenter attempts to eliminate unwanted extraneous variables
- The control over extraneous variables is greater than other methods
- Makes it possible to determine a cause and effect relationship
- Can assess data quantitatively or qualitatively
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| What are the disadvantages of an experiemental research design? |
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Experimental situation may not relate to the real world
It may be unethical or impossible |
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| What is a Quantitaive Observational research design? |
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- Researcher observes what happens to the Dependent Variable (result)
- Can investigate differences between groups
- Numerical data
- Observational data
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| What are the advantages of Quantiative Observational? |
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- Allows variables that may be unethical, impossible or too costly in experimental design
- Some kinds of behaviour can onyl be observed in naturalistic, unplanned setting
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| Disadvantages of Quantiative Observational |
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- Cannot infer such a strong cause and effect relationship
- Greater chance of other variables affecting the results
- Cannot replicate findings as some situations may not naturally occur again
- Observer bias may influence results
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| What is a Qualitative research design? |
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- Uses focus groups, interviews and the Delphi Technique
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| What category does Focus Group come under? |
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- A group of 12 who get interviewed and get data through discussion
- Lead by trained facilitator
- Participatns are encouraged to talk with each other
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| What are the advantagages of a focus group? |
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- May be more convenient than 1on1 interviews
- Rich Data can be collected
- Easy to organise and iexpensive to conduct
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| What are the disadvantages of a focus group? |
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- People may not feel comfortable expressing opinions in front of others
- A few people may dominate the discussion
- Cannot establish causation
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| What is the Delphi Technique? |
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- Self-administered questionnaires and feedback
- Information from experts
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| Advantages of Delphi Technique |
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- Due to confidentiality and anonymity participants are free to express themselves
- Experts can be contacted easily and cheaply and through many different ways e.g. email, telephone etc
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| Disadvantages of Delphi Technique |
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- Researcher bias can contaminate results
- Doesnt allow generalisation fo results due to small sample group
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- Larger the sample size, more accurate the results
- Random assignmen
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| What types of data can be gathered ? |
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- Objective quantiative
- Subjective Quantitative
- Qualitative
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| What is Objective Quantitative Data |
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- Not based on opinion
- Numerical
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| What is subjective quantitative data? |
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- Feelings or thoughts measured as numbers
- questionnaires
- Rating scales
- Checklists
- Scores on a personality test
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| What is qualitative data? |
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- Data is always subjective and in the form of words
- Content analysis
- focus groups
- delphi technique
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| What is the independent variable? |
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| What experimenters can change and what theyre working on |
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| What is the dependent variable? |
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| What are the ethical considerations? |
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- Informed ocnsent
- Right to withdraw
- Do no harm
- Voluntary participation
- Confidentiality
- Deception and debriefing
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