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Exam 2 Module 5

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Definition
correlational design   focuses on how variables are related to each other but only measures the variables  
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methods   surveys, interviews, records, observations  
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Survey issue: Acquiescence   rating everything positively - leniency  
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Survey issue: central tendency   rating everything in the middle  
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Survey issue: severity   rating everything negatively  
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Alternative hypotheses   the one where something happens  
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nondirectional hypotheses   doesn't say how variables are related or different only that they are  
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directional hypotheses   specifies the nature of the relationship or difference  
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null hypotheses   the one where nothing happens  
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fixing survey issues   reverse-coded items or attention-coded items  
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factor analysis   large number of participants complete the measure then factor analyze the scores to find the items that group together well  
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social desirability   tendency for people to present themselves in a favorable fashion  
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negative value correlation   one variable increases, the other decreases  
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positive value correlation   one variable increases, the other increases  
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