RM vocab Part 5

Which type of experiment is it when you can't randomly allocate the participants to groups - they have to go in one particular group?

• Lab

• Field

• Natural

This type of observation takes place in a real life setting

This side of a key debate suggests our behaviour is a result of innate biological factors

When two co-variables change in opposite directions, it's a ________ correlation

• negative

• positive

• zero

Match the following:

• non-participant

• an observation where the researcher does not take part in the activity

• overt

• an observation where the researcher takes part in the activity

• participant

• an observation where people don't know they're being watched

• covert

• an observation where people do know they're being watched

When people change their behaviour because they know they are being watched

• demand characteristics

• observer effect

• researcher bias

• social desirability bias

Tick all of the things associated with open questions:

• qualitative data
• quantitative data
• easy to analyse

• harder to analyse

Sampling method that involves choosing people who happen to be available and convenient

• random

• opportunity

• self-selecting

Tick all the examples of order effects

• Differences between participant ability or characteristics

• boredom

• practice

• changing behaviour because they're being watched

What is this graph used to show?

• correlations

• changes over time

• mean values of groups

• percentages