Experimental Psychology PSY-452 Exam 2 Review

What level of measurement is used for a doctor's 1 to 10 ratings of a patient's health?

What do we call a characteristic that cannot be observed but can be inferred from behavior?

A hypothesis that contains the fewest supporting assumptions is

Which design’s internal validity is most threatened by the possibility of practice effects?

____ are unseen processes postulated to explain behavior

What is good research?

Descriptive, correlational, experimental, developmental, observation, and surveys are

A test using gender differences as the IV is

Participants in a blind taste test ranked beverages from first to fifth place. What is the scale of measure

The main difference between a correlational study and experiment is

Longitudinal and cross-sectional designs tend to be high in

When neither researcher nor participant knows who received treatment in an experiment, it is

Which measurement scale provides the most complete description of a variable’s magnitude or quantitative size?

The concept of levels of measurement applies to

What level of measurement is used for income?

What is external validity of a study?

An attempt to understand perceptions and perspectives of a particular situation or event?

To examine gender, income, and religion as variables in a population, it would be best to use

A review of prior studies in an area may provide

If I administer two measures of depression simultaneously to gauge one measure's validity, I am establishing

Correlational research measures cause and effect.

When a researcher collects data from psychology classes, they use what kind of sampling?

What are the three subsections of the Method section of a manuscript?

If I study depressive symptoms in one group before and after a 30-day period, I have used a

The risk of not being 100% confident in your findings is called:

What level of measurement is used with the names of a football team?

The Solomon 4-group design is an extension of the ____ design.

What can I do to increase internal validity of a study?

What level of measurement is used for grade point average from 1.0 to 4.0?

If everyone in a sample has an equal chance of being included in both the treatment or control group, we are using

Parametric statistics are based on two assumptions:

A study that compares math scores of 5th, 6th, & 7th graders simultaneously is called a

The Central Limit Theorem is the basis of

A theory is non-generalizable, not based on others work, and not easily replicated.

What is internal validity of a study?

What is the best way to describe a literature review in a research proposal or manuscript?

Detailed and systematic examination to identify themes in a particular body of material.

Following a group of children from 1st to 8th grade to assess math skills is called

The conventional probability level in behavioral science is

What level of measurement is used for IQ score?

If you have a population of 20% men and 80% women, theoretically an accurate random sample of 10 should have

In writing a lit review, one you identify your topic, the next step is to identify what?

Detailed content built into questionnaire items to encourage subjects to think about each choice guards against?

It is important for clusters to be what in cluster sampling?

____ is the process of reasoning from general principles to specific cases.

What level of measurement is used for grade level (1st, 2nd, etc.)?

____ is reasoning from specific cases to general principles.

Which of the following is not a threat to internal validity?

What makes a factorial design different?

What characteristics must be present for a true experiment?