Peer-Reviewed Articles
Brief description (150-250 words)
1-2 sentences on each section
What is an abstract?
Ranking of top college football teams
What is ordinal?
The degree to which a measure assesses what it claims to
Each member of the population is equally likely to be chosen as part of the sample
What is random sampling?
Describing, predicting, & explaining behavior
What are the goals of scientific research?
Description of participants
Materials (tests/instruments)
Research procedures (the “recipe” for the exp.)
What is the methods section?
Likert scales of measurement
What is interval?
The degree to which a measure is consistent
What is reliability?
Every participant has an equal opportunity of being placed in the experimental or control conditions
What is random assignment?
Reviews research proposals to ensure compliance w/ federal ethical regulations for human subjects
What is the IRB?
Products of statistical analyses
What is the results section?
Favorite Ice Cream (1-vanilla, 2-chocolate, 3- strawberry, 4-other)
What is the nominal scale?
Two-raters have hand coded a measure of anxiety to check for consistency an obtain a correlation of +.84
What is inter-rater reliability?
The tentative proposition about relationships between variables within a study
What is a hypothesis?
A researcher provides a written explanation of the specific purpose of their study after a participant’s data is completely collected.
What is an informed consent?
How do the findings fit in the “big picture”?
Restating predictions, which were (not) supported?
Interpretation of Results
“Tie in” with Introduction (past research, theory)
What is the discussion section?
How many hours spent studying for exam 1
What is the ratio scale?
GRE predicts later performance in graduate school
What is predictive criterion validity?
A definition of a variable in terms of the activities a researcher uses to measure or manipulate
What is an operational definition?
A researcher provides a written explanation of the general nature of their study to the individuals prior to their participation.
What is an informed consent?
Broad level description of topic
Literature review
Explicit purpose of the study
What is the introduction section?
Properties associated with the ratio scale of measurement
Identity, Magnitude, Equal Unit Size, & Absolute Zero
A new measure of aggressive behavior positively correlates well with other measures of aggressive behaviors and negatively correlates with measures of gentle behaviors.
What is convergent and divergent construct validity?
Psychological states or processes that are hypothesized to exists, but they cannot be directly observed
What is a construct?
Scientific theories must always be stated in such a way that the predictions derived from them could potentially be shown to be false.
What is falsifiability?