Psychology research methods
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9 Terms
construct
an unobservable and abstract concept or internal process
variable
any characteristic that can change or be controlled in an experiment/study
nomothetic approach
part of qualitative research, studies large groups of people to draw universal rules or general laws of behaviour
operationalisation
the process of turning unobservable and abstract constructs into measurable and concrete data with a method
construct validity
the degree to which the operationalisation of a construct accurately/successfully measures said construct
correlational study
a type of quantitative research method. researcher does not manipulate any variables and there is no intervention and strictly observational
experiment
a type of quantitative research method that includes 1 IV and 1 DV
quantitative descriptive surveys
type of qualitative research method that measures separate variables that have no correlation