Key Science Skills AOS2 SAC

Case study

An intensive, in-depth investigation of behavior, event, or problem in a single individual, group, organization, or situation.

Confidentiality

Ethical guideline ensuring privacy, protection, and security of a participant's personal information, including results.

Controlled experiment

Investigation of the relationship between independent and dependent variables while controlling all other variables.

Debriefing

Ethical guideline ensuring participants understand the aim, results, and conclusions of an experiment, including well-being checks.

Integrity

Commitment to honest reporting of information and results in research, contributing to public knowledge.

Withdrawal right

Ethical guideline allowing participants to discontinue involvement in an experiment at any time.

Non-maleficence

Ethical principle in research ethics, avoiding causing harm.

Justice

Moral obligation to ensure fair consideration, distribution, and access to benefits in research.

Correlational study

Research method investigating relationships between variables without researcher manipulation.

Simulation study

Reproducing research situations realistically to study behavior and mental processes.

Beneficence

Commitment to maximizing benefits and minimizing risks in research.

Informed consent

Ethical guideline requiring participants to understand the experiment's nature, purpose, and risks before agreeing to participate.

Respect

Consideration of the intrinsic or instrumental value of living things in research ethics.

Deception (in research)

Deliberately concealing the true purpose of the experiment from participants.

Voluntary participation

Ethical guideline ensuring participants freely choose to be involved without coercion.

Within subjects experiment

Design where each participant is in both experimental and control groups or all treatment conditions.

Between subjects

Design where each participant is assigned to only one group or condition for data analysis.

Biased sample

Research sample not adequately representing the key characteristics of its population.