Course: Unit 4 - Advanced research methods | K.E.S Moodle

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1. What are the 'main features' of science?
2. What is peer review? And what are the conventions for submitting investgations for it?
- Examples of journal articles that have been peer reviewed
  peer review 2.pdf
  peer review 3.pdf
  peer review 4.pdf
  peer review 5.pdf
  peer review.pdf
- Peer review lesson File
- Peer review - Work for when KEF absent File
3. How do we sample? And why is it important in psychological research?
- Sampling lesson File
- The different types of sampling – A lego explanation URL
4. What is the difference between reliability and validity? And how do we improve them in research?
5. What ethical issues do we need to consider in research?
6. Null hypotheses, alternative hypotheses and statistical errors (type I and type II)
- Video - Help with understanding hypothsis types and statistical errors URL
- Lesson - Hypothesese and statistical errors File
7. How do we choose, and use, inferential statistics?
8. How do we analyse and interpret qualitative data?
9. Revision lesson
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