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intro to stats and research design

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What is a variable   any observation of a physical, attitudinal or behavioral characteristic that can take on values  
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What is a discrete observation   can take on only specific values--whole #-- no other values can exist between these numbers  
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What is a continuous observation   can take on a full range of values--number out several decimal places-- an infinite number of potential values exists  
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What is nominal variables   a variable used for observations that have categories or names as their values  
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What is an ordinal variable   a variable used for observations that have rankings such as 1st, 2nd, 3rd...  
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What is an interval variable   a variable used for observations that have numbers as their values and the distance or interval between pairs of consecutive numbers is assumed to be equal  
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What is a ratio variable   a variable that meets criteria for an interval variable but also has a meaningful zero point  
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What is a scale variable   A variable that meets the criteria for an interval or a ratio variable  
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What is a level   a discrete value or condition that a variable can take on  
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What is an independent variable   a variable that we either manipulate or observe to determine its effects on the dependent variable  
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What is a good variable   reliable and complete  
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what is a dependent variable   the outcome variable that we hypothesize to be related to or caused by changes in the independent variable  
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What is a confounding variable   any variable systematically varies with the independent variable so that we cannot logically determine which variable is at work also called a confound  
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What is reliability   Refers to the consistency of a measure  
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What is validity   the extent to which a test actually measures what was intended to measure  
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What is hypothesis testing   the process of drawing conclusions about whether a particular relation between variables is supported by the evidence  
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What is operational definition   specifies the operations or procedures used to measure or manipulate a variable  
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What is correlation   an association between two or more variables  
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What is an experiment   a study in participants are randomly assigned to a condition or level of one or more independent variables which par  
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What is a random assignment   every participant has an equal chance of being assigned to any group or experimental condition in the study  
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What is an between--groups research design   participants experience one, and only one ,level of the independent variable  
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What is a within--groups research design   the different levels of the independent variable are experienced by all participants in the study also called a repeated- measure research design  
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