Research Designs

A pre-existing variable such as shoe size is which type of design...

• Experimental

• Observational

• Focus Group

• Delphi Technique

The three types of research designs used in Psychology are:

• subjective quantitative, objective quantitative, qualitative

• independent measures, repeated measures, matched-pairs design

• experiment, observational, qualitative

• experiment, objective quantitative, qualitative

The type of variable that you change or manipulate in an experiment.  It is what you are testing.

• Independent
• Dependent
• Control

The type of variable that responds to the experiment and is what you measure to determine if your hypothesis is true.

• Independent
• Dependent
• Control

A focus group is conducted to gain...

• Numbers

• Opinions

• Conclusions

• Statistics

Some benefits of conducting a Delphi Technique are...

• Experts & face to face discussions

• Face to face discussions & people from anywhere in the world

• Gaining numbers from participants

• Experts & people from anywhere in the world

Experimental design manipulates the independent variable...

• True

• False

An example of observational design is... when a group of participants are made to have 3 hours sleep and a group of participants are made to have 8 hours of sleep then their memory of 9 items is tested.

• True

• False