Psychology - Research Methods

Knowing enough about a study to decide whether you want to agree to participate

• Right to withdraw

• Confidentiality

• Informed Consent

• Privacy

Natural experiments are true experiments

• True

• False

A situation where participants' performance improves because they experience the experimental task more than once.

• Fatigue effect

• Practice effect

What is the term referred to the extent to which the researcher is testing what they claim to be testing ?

• Validity

• Reliability

• Generalisability

An experimental design in which different participants are used in each level of IV

• Repeated measures design

• Independent measures design

• Matched pairs design

Reliability is the extent to which a procedure is consistent to produce the same results with same people on each occasion.

• True

• False

A research method which obtains data by asking participants to provide information about themselves

• Experimental tests

• Observations

• Self reports

An interview with a fixed list of open and closed questions

• Structured Interview

• Unstructured Interview

• Semi-structured Interview

What is the term called for 'a detailed investigation of a single instance on one person or single family or an institution.'

A type of observation conducted in the participants' normal environment without interference from the researchers.

• Controlled observation

• Naturalistic observation