Research Methods + Practicals + Readings

What does evidence for Psychology come from?

What do research studies follow?

Why is scientific evidence importance?

What are the basic steps of a research study?

What should research questions be?

What is a construct?

Why are constructs researched?

How are constructs measured?

What is operationalising a construct?

Are constructs measurable?

What are the limitations of operationalising constructs?

What is the relationship between previous research and constructs?

What should the method be for operationalising constructs?

What are the different types of research questions?

Where do research questions come from?

What is applied research?

What is basic research?

What is a literature research and review?

What is the purpose of a literature research and review?

What is research literature in psychology?

How should a literature review be conducted?

What can discussions be used for in a literature review?

What is a theory?

What is a hypothesis?

What are the features of a hypothesis?

What makes a theory good?

How does a hypothesis contribute to a theory?

Why should a hypothesis be revised?

How are research questions evaluated?

What is interestingness?

What is feasibility?

What influences feasibility?

What is a variable?

What are the different types of variables?

What is an independent variable?

What is a dependent variable?

What is a categorical variable?

What is a continuous variable?

What is a discrete variable?

What is a quantitative variable?

How is a scale chosen?

What is measurement?

What are the four scales of measurement?

What is the nominal scale?

What is the nominal scale's mode of central tendency?

What is an ordinal scale?

What is the ordinal scale's mode of central tendency?

What is the interval scale?

What is a limitation of the interval scale

What is an example of the interval scale?

What is the interval scale's mode of central tendency?

What is the ratio scale?

What is the ratio scale's mode of central tendency?

What information do interval and ratio scales provide?

What is consistency?

What must a relationship show for validity and reliability to be analysed?

What is validity?

What is reliability?

What does reliability assume?

What happens If errors are small?

What happens if errors are big?

Where do errors come from?

How can reliability increase?

What is the relationship between reliability and validity?

What is the modality of measurement?

What are the common modalities of measurements?

What are self-report measures?

What are the advantages of self-report measures?

What are the disadvantages of self-report measures?

What are physiological measures?

What are the advantages of physiological measures?

What are the disadvantages of physiological measures?

What are behavioural measures?

What are the advantages of behavioural measures?

What are the disadvantages of behavioural measures?

How do you reduce the disadvantage of behavioural measures?

What is a research design dependent on?

What is research design?

What does a research design indicate?

What contributes to a well-constructed research design?

What is internal validity?

What are the threats to internal validity?

What is external validity?

What are the threats to external validity?

What are the threats to overall validity?

What are demand characteristics?

What are the types of research designs?

What is a descriptive research design?

What is a correlational research design?

When do relationships exist between variables?

What is an experimental research design?

What is a quasi-experimental research design?

What is a non-experimental research design?

What is sampling?

What is a population?

What is a sample?

How is a sample used in psychological research?

What is the relationship between representativeness and generalisability?

What is bias in sampling?

What is the relationship between sample size and representativeness?