Final Exam Study Guide

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Operational Definition

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A statement of procedures (operations) used to define research variables. Ex: human intelligence may be operationally defined as what an intelligence test measures.

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Validity

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The extent to which a test measures or predicts what it is supposed to

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Reliability

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The extent to which a test yields consistent results, as assessed by the consistency of scores on two halves of the test, on alternate forms of the test, or on retesting

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Generalization

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In classical conditioning, the tendency, once a response has been conditioned, for stimuli similar to the conditioned stimulus to elicit similar responses

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Debriefing

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[FIND]

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Representativeness heuristic

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Judging the likelihood of things in terms of how well they seem to represent, or match, particular prototypes; may lead one to ignore other relevant information

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Random Assignment

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Assigning research participants to experimental control conditions by chance, thus minimizing preexisting differences between those assigned to the different groups

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Confound/Extraneous Variability

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[FIND]

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Independent Variable

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The experimental factor that is manipulated; the variable whose effect is being studied

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Dependent Variable

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The outcome factor; the variable that may change in response to manipulations of the independent variable