Health psychology Research methods

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• 1Say what makes a questionnaire standardised (3 marks)
• 2Give the ALQ in the detail the specification expects (4 marks)
• 3Say how a questionnaire's reliability would be established (3 marks)
• 4Say what an alpha of .91 does and does not license (4 marks)
• 5Define a focus group so the definition earns both marks (3 marks)
• 6Evaluate the weaknesses that are specific to focus groups (4 marks)
• 7Match the method to the health question (4 marks)
• 8Design the mixed-methods sequence (5 marks)
• 9Explain why Russell et al. (2015) is not an outcome study (4 marks)

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• 1Sort the issues into the two halves the specification names (3 marks)
• 2Give two practical reasons with what each one buys (4 marks)
• 3State what the Act protects and who has to be licensed (4 marks)
• 4Apply the 3Rs to a study rather than reciting them (4 marks)
• 5Split the claim in two and say which half transfers (4 marks)
• 6State the yoked-pair design correctly (4 marks)
• 7State the confound and the reversal (4 marks)
• 8Redesign a described animal study to meet a modern licence (4 marks)
• 9Run the harmu0026#8211;benefit analysis on a real case (5 marks)

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• 1Classify health data by level of measurement (3 marks)
• 2Compute percentages, a ratio and attrition from published counts (4 marks)
• 3Distinguish percentage points from percentage change (3 marks)
• 4Choose the right average for skewed health data (4 marks)
• 5Choose the test in the fixed order (3 marks)
• 6Calculate chi-squared end to end on treatment outcome data (6 marks)
• 7Calculate Spearman's rho on life-change and consultation data (5 marks)
• 8Calculate a Wilcoxon with a tied pair, end to end (6 marks)
• 9Sense check four reported statistics (4 marks)

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• 1Choose the right criterion for the research (3 marks)
• 2State the direction in which a limitation pushes the result (4 marks)
• 3Identify which kind of reliability applies (3 marks)
• 4Say which validity is being challenged (4 marks)
• 5Judge qualitative work by the criterion it can meet (4 marks)
• 6Show that a number is not automatically objective (4 marks)
• 7Pair each application with the evidence behind it (4 marks)
• 8Show two criteria trading off against each other (4 marks)
• 9Assign the right criteria to each of the four studies (5 marks)

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