WorksheetsPsychological research key terms
Total questions: 7
Worksheet time: 7mins
What type of experiment would yield the highest 'ecological validity'?
Field experiment
Natural experiment
Laboratory experiment
Where different researchers can conduct the same study to obtain similar results, this is referred to as what?
Inter-observer reliability
Internal validity
Face validity
If I used 'snowball sampling' what would this mean?
Participants have volunteered to participate in the study
Participants are chosen at random at the time of the study
Participants recruit further participants they know
Which variable are you measuring in a research study?
Dependent variable
Independent variable
Extraneous variable
If you were to conduct your own study and produce new data, what type would you collect?
Primary
Objective
Secondary
What professional organisation oversee ethics of research?
Office for National Statistics (ONS)
British Psychological Society (BPS)
Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
If research findings are 'generalisable' they are:
Representative of the wider population
Subjective
Accurate
