- Define the term logistics
- Discuss logistical issues in research
- Explain the concept internal validity
- Discuss the following threats to internal validity and illustrate how a researcher can control each threat
- History
- Testing
- Maturation
- Statistical Regression
- Explain the concept internal validity
- Discuss the following threats to internal validity and illustrate how a researcher can control each threat
- Instrumentation
- Selection
- Experimenter Bias
- Mortality
- Define external validity
- Discuss the following threats to external validity and illustrate how a researcher can control each threat
- Demand Characteristics
- Hawthorne Effect
- Order Effects
- Treatment Interaction Effects
- Define the term ethics
- Discuss ethical issues in research
- Using relevant examples, Discuss the following:
- Dependent and independent variables
- Extraneous variables
- Confounded relationship
- Define the term hypothesis
- Outline qualities of a good hypothesis
- Using relevant examples, briefly distinguish between the following:
- Null and alternative hypothesis
- Type 1 and type 11 errors
- Discuss the functions of hypothesis