Free SACE Year 11 Psychology Flashcard Review
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What is an independent variable?
The variable deliberately manipulated in an experiment.
What is a dependent variable?
The measured outcome.
What makes an extraneous variable a confound?
It varies systematically with the proposed cause.
What does a focus group provide?
Interactive qualitative accounts, with possible conformity and dominance.
What does Delphi involve?
Repeated expert judgement rounds with feedback, often anonymous.
Can a subjective measure be quantitative?
Yes: a numerical personal stress rating.
How is the mean calculated?
Sum scores and divide by the number of scores.
How is an even-sized median found?
Order scores and average the two middle values.
What does standard deviation describe?
Spread around the mean in the original units.
Why is correlation not enough for causation?
Other variables or reverse direction may explain the relationship.
What is confidentiality?
Protecting information participants have shared.
Why acknowledge sources?
To credit contributions and let readers trace and assess evidence.
Why use shared conventions?
They make methods, measurements and claims understandable and comparable.
What does peer checking contribute?
It identifies weaknesses and prompts revision without guaranteeing truth.
Why collaborate with stakeholders?
Their experience helps make questions and applications relevant and feasible.
How can multiple sources strengthen explanations?
Independent approaches can provide converging evidence and reveal limitations.
How can disciplines work together?
They contribute complementary accounts of individual, bodily and social processes.
Does new technology prove an explanation?
No. Its measures and assumptions still require validation.
What makes a relationship two-way?
A concern shapes science and scientific knowledge influences responses to that concern.
Give an economic relationship.
Budgets shape research priorities; evidence can guide future spending.