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RMS exam 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Goals of Beh Research | Description/Predicting/Explaining/Controlling |
| Scientific Approach Requires | Systematic Empiricism/ Public Verification/ Testability |
| Measurement | operational definitions |
| Theory | educated guess |
| a good theory | parsimonious/ falsifiable |
| proof | logical impossibility |
| disproof | practical impossibility |
| Descriptive research | answers "what"- polls |
| correlational research | relationship? |
| experimental research | causes (IV and DV) |
| quasi-experimental | can't manipulate IV |
| inferential statistics | did something happen by chance? |
| variance | amount but not type/ sum(x-Xbar)/n-1 |
| error variance | factors not being investigated |
| Cohen's small | .01 |
| Cohen's medium | .06 |
| Cohen's large | >.15 |
| behavioral measures | what subjects do |
| nominal | naming/no order |
| ordinal | order |
| interval | relative distance btw ratings |
| ratio | divide & multiply quantities |
| most stats measures require at least | interval measures |
| reliability | consistency |
| test-retest reliability | same individual test many times= variability btw scores= error variance |
| interitem relaibility | randomly chosen halves have similar |
| interrater reliability | two diff observers' measurements similar |
| validity | variable has been accurately measured and manipulated- logically appropriate |
| construct validity | measurement must asses what you think you are measuring |
| choose a task for which you will see a _______ of performance | range |
| how to mislead with graphs | non-zero/diff scales/average values/log scale |
| nominal scale calls for | mode |
| standard error | s/√n |
| operational definition | specific enough to replicate |
| induction | specific to general |
| morgan's canon | animals non anthropomorphed |
| error variance | pooled |
| converging operations | common conclusions |
| types of measures | physiological/behavioral/self-reports |