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59 Cards in this Set
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Describe?
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What is it?
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Predict?
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Why did it happen?
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Control?
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How to make it happen?
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Tenacity?
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It's always been that way.
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Intuition?
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It feels true.
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Authority?
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The boss says its true
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Rationalism?
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It makes sense logically.
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Empiricism?
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It is observed to be true.
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Science?
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Combination of observed to be true and makes sense logically.
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Construct?
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Allows us to conceptualize what we do not understand completely.
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A good theory is?
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Testable, sufficient summary, complient with previous data, simple # of assumptions.
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Inductive thinking?
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From specific to general.
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Deductive reasoning?
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From general to specific.
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Theories do what?
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Organize constructs.
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APA style order?
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Title page, abstract, intro, method, results, discussion, references, tables & figs.
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Title page?
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Concise title, list of authors, running head.
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Abstract?
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Concise summary, published in databases.
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Intro?
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Starts broad, gives general idea, background info, focuses on hypothesis.
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Method?
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Participants, procedures, materials.
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References?
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In order by author, and date, most recent first
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Results?
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All of the stat and numbers
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Figures?
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No page numbers, captions on previous page.
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Validity?
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best available form of truth.
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Operationalize?
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Show how its measured.
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Conclusion validity?
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is the relationship btwn cause and effect?
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Statistical validity unreliable?
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named unreliable by bad measures or assumptions.
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Type 2?
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Missed something.
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Most common error?
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Type 2!
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Type 1?
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False alarm!
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Internal validity?
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Is the relationship caused by an EV?
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Construct validity?
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If there was a relationship was the op. def appropriate.
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External val?
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Can it be repeated with diff. people, places, or times.
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Threat to external val?
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Timing of experiment.
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Theoretical pop?
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Who you want to generalize.
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Accessible pop?
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sample of people you can access
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Sampling frame?
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How you get access to the accessible.
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Probability sample?
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Utilizes some form of random sampling.
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Random sampling?
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Everyone has an equal chance of being sampled.
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Systemattic Sample?
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Pick every Nth person.
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Cluster random sample?
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Random counties, random people.
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Stratified random sample.
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Random sampling from divided subgroups.
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Stimulus variable?
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The surrounding environment, that is uncontrolled, humming lights, noise, temp.
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Behavioral variable?
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observable responses-words said, gestures, etc.
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Subject variable?
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Gender, age.
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Nominal?
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Just name to classify, ex: male and female
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Ordinal?
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Groups that are named and ranked. Ex: sports teams.
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Interval?
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Named, ranked, and in interval range. Age, Cost.
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Ratio?
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Must add zero. How many people you met this week.
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Construct Validity measures?
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What it is supposed to measure.
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Construct validity is increased when?
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research controls EV's and minimized measurement error.
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Mono operation bias/mono method?
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Use only one operartionalization of IV or DV.
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Convergent Validity?
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Degree to which op. is similar to other ops. that it should be simiiar to.
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Discriminant validity?
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Degree to which the op is NOT similar to things it should not be similar to.
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Reliability?
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Consistency of measurement.
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Interrater?
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degree of agreement btwn two different raters.
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Test-retest reliability?
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Degree of consistency over time.
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Internal consistency?
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Degree of consistency across items.
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Effect range?
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Select measures that are sensetive to the diffs. in the variables of interest.---if insufficient, data are scrunched.
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How do you reduce measurement error?
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With carefully developed operationalizations.
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