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Research Methods 2

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Types of descriptive research   survey, demographic, epidemiological  
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Demographic research   characteristics of a population  
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Epidemiological research   occurence of disease or death  
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Pearson's r applies to what kind of relationships?   linear  
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Range of Pearson's r   -1 to +1  
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Curvilinear relationship   quadratic, correlation inappropriate  
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How many SDs from the mean are outliers?   3  
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Online outlier   artificially inflates  
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Offline outlier   artificially deflates  
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Partial correlation   remove shared variance of variable we are not interested in  
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True independent variable   a variable a researcher can manipulate  
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Types of true IVs   environmental, instructional, invasive  
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Environmental IV   change in physical or social environment  
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Instructional IV   verabal instructions given to participants  
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Invasive IV   sugery or drugs  
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How many levels for true IV?   must have 2  
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Subject variable   stable characteristics of participants that can't be manipulated  
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Between-subjects study   1 control group, 1 experimental group  
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Within-subjects study   control and experiment conditions applied to 1 group  
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Systematic variance   variance that is systematically different between groups  
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Treatment variance   variance that occurs due to IV  
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Confound variance   variance that occurs due to any variable other than IV (result could have been from something other than IV if both variables occured at once)  
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Internal validity   accuracy of conclusions  
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Demand characteristics   aspects that indicate to subjects what experimenters are looking for (leads to expectency bias)  
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Single-item measure   one item provides enough information  
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Multi-item measure   set of items required to provide information about a more complex construct (depression, personality)  
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Criteria for causality   covariation, temporal priority (one variable changes before the other), causation when extraneous variables are controlled  
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When do researchers use multi-level modeling?   when there are nested samples  
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Factor analysis   many factors summarized by one factor (Big 5 personality test)  
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Z-score   standard deviation from the mean  
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Regression   relationship between the means of two variables (prediction)  
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Regression equation   Y=mX + b  
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Regression constant   b  
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Regression coefficient   m  
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Multiple regression   more than one predictor, more accurately predicts outcome  
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Multiple regression equation   Y=mX + b + c + d + ....  
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Simultaneous multiple regression   all predictors in same equation  
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Step-wise multiple regression   one predictor added to equation at a time  
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What does variation in the predictor variable tell us   % systematic variance in the outcome variable  
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Order effects   the order in which participants are given questions affects their responses  
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How are order effects controlled?   counterbalancing  
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Counerbalancing   one part of sample completes conditions in a certain order and the other completes them in a different order  
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