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Claims that are made on the basis of evidence that I designed to appear scientific referred as
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Pseudoscience
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What in empiricism?
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Not basing things on Intuition/authority. Using science to prove.
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In a factorial design the main effect is the effect of the _______ variable by itself.
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Independent
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When a confounding variable is present in an experiment one cannot tell whether the results were due to the
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Independent variable or the confounding variable
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A regression equation is used to –
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Derive a formula for a line. If you have a value for X you can find value for Y. IE - Predict a score on Y from a known score on X
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Correlation
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A statistical measurement of the relationship between two variables. Range from +1 to –1. 0 indicates that there is no relationship. –1 indicates a perfect negative correlation, meaning that as one goes up, the other goes down. +1 indicates a perfect positive correlation, both variables move in the same direction together.
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The finding that “the more classes a person takes, the more money they spend on textbooks”
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Positive relationship
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The finding that "the more video games a person plays, the worse their grades are"
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Negative relationship
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A ceiling effect occurs when a measure results in too many
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Maximum Scores
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The floor effect is if you give 4th graders a college exam
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Scores will be too low
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A researcher presents his dog with a bowl of normal dog food and a bowl of vitamin enriched dog food. He then records the amount of each type of food the dog consumes as a measure of his dogs food preference. What kind of measure has the researcher used.
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Behavioral Measure
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Judy finds a high correlation between her measure of intimacy and a measure of self disclosure. Judys finding would be an example of which type of validity?
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Convergent – If a scale measures what you think it measures it should work the same as other scales. You would expect a relationship that is intimate to have good self-disclosure
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When do you not want face validity?
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When you don’t want people to know what you are measuring.
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Divergent and Discriminate are?
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The same thing – Opposite of convergent
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The Belmont Report’s principle of _______ requires that individuals be capable of making deliberate decisions about whether to participate in the research.
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Autonomy
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