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A complete, well structured and detailed information booklet for the Year 2 research methods topic (AQA A Level Psychology).
All the information students needs to support them with the research methods year 2 content. All evaluation is in the ‘PEL’ structure: (point/evidence or example and link). 22 pages.
Research Methods
- Content Analysis
- Case Studies
Scientific Processes - Reliability across all methods of investigation. Ways of assessing reliability: test-retest and inter-observer; improving reliability
- Types of validity cross all methods of investigation: face validity, concurrent validity, ecological validity, temporal validity. Assessment of validity. Improving validity
- Features of science: objectivity and the empirical method; replicability and falsifiability, theory construction and hypothesis testing; paradigms and paradigm shifts.
- Reporting psychological investigations. Sections of a scientific report: abstract, introduction, method, results, discussion and referencing
Data Handling & Analysis - Levels of measurement: nominal, ordinal and interval
- Content analysis and coding
- Thematic analysis
- Inferential Testing
- Type I and Type II errors
- Factor affecting the choice of statistical test, including level of measurement and experimental design
- When to use the following tests: Spearman’s rho, Pearson’s r, Wilcoxon, Mann-Whitney, related t-test, unrelated t-test and Chi-Squared test.
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