PSY1022 Chapter Notes -Ecological Validity, Scatter Plot, Nonprobability Sampling
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Measuring variables for individuals participants to obtain scores, usually numerical values, that are submitted to statistical analysis for summary and interpretation. Making observations that are summarised and interpreted in. General approach to research determined by the kind of question that the research study hopes to answer. Group of people who participate in a study. All of the people about whom a study is meant to generalise. Achieved through random selection in which each member of the population is equally likely to be chosen. Characteristic inherent in the subjects that cannot be changed. Idea that it is possible that some other, uncontrolled, extraneous variable may be responsible for the observed relationship. Used on a checklist on which attributes that will not change are recorded. Type of item to note the presence/absence of behaviours. Numerical scale on which survey respondents indicate the direction and strength of their response.
