PSYC 300- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 56 pages long!)
4 Dec 2017
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Scientific method attempts to differentiate facts from values: facts results, methods, values introduction, discussion. Types of research: approach: basic vs. applied, orientation: quantitative vs. qualitative, research designs: descriptive, correlational, experimental; converging operations. Research ethics: involved in all science, involves values, not facts, cost vs. benefits, human participants or animal research. Goals: avoid physical/psychological harm, provide freedom of choice, maintain awareness of power differentials, honestly describe the research. Procedures: institutional review board (irb) decision of values, informed consent, debriefing. Operational definition: specific description, multiple possibilities, converging operations. Scaling how conceptual variable relates to measured variable: ratio, interval, ordinal, nominal. Self-report measures: guttman scale measures behavior, but is a self-report measure, if you check off one item, it is implied you"d check off the items that precede it. Issues with self-report: reactivity: people change their responses when they know they"re part of an experiment, cooperative responding doing what they think the researcher wants them to do, response acquiescence (solution: reverse scoring/wording, self-promotion.
