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Distinguish between experimental methods and non-experimental methods, including laboratory experiments, field experiments, natural experiments, observations, self-reports, correlations, case studies and quasi/independent-groups, repeated-measures and matched-participants designs where relevant to planning research.
Identify, operationalise and apply key features of research design, including aims, hypotheses, variables, experimental and control conditions, allocation to conditions, standardised procedures, randomisation, counterbalancing and controls for extraneous and confounding variables.
Select, describe and evaluate sampling techniques, including opportunity, volunteer, random and systematic sampling, and explain how sample characteristics and participant variables affect representativeness, generalisability and bias.
Plan and justify appropriate procedures for collecting primary data using psychological methods, including questionnaires, interviews and observations, with attention to reliability, validity and practical conduct in investigations.
Explain and apply ethical considerations in psychological research, including informed consent, deception, protection from harm, confidentiality, privacy, the right to withdraw and debriefing, and suggest ways to manage ethical issues in context.
Evaluate research design decisions using methodological concepts such as reliability, validity, objectivity, control, ecological validity, internal validity, population validity and reduction of bias.
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