PSYCH230 Lecture 2: Research Methods
21 Sep 2015
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Guiding ethical principles: respect for human dignity. Treating people as people, not roles: respect for free and informed consent. Assumption is our free consent is not always free. Our consent can be manipulated without us noticing: respect for vulnerable persons, respect for privacy and confidentiality, respect for justice and inclusiveness. Everyone"s voice matters: balancing harms and benefits. No guarantees that a study will help us learn anything. Balance guess that something may result against the chance that someone could be hurt. Internal validity: extent to which the effects of one variable on another variable approximates a true reflection of reality, extent to which one can infer that a relationship between two variables or factors is casual. Threats to validity - bias: something other than the variable of interest affects the results, both researchers and participants can be sources of bias, researcher bias. Selective data collections - own interpretation of a hit or miss
