The Count of Measurementcrisco
Requires categories, rank, and numbers but no real zero
Interval Level of Measurement
Non-probability Sampling method in which researcher puts people in general categories and then selects cases from each category.
Quota Sample
Another name for the non- treatment the group other than the experimental group gets in an experiment.
Placebo
Reason Dr. Milgram's Research was unethical
Caused psychological Distress
Research conducted to increase knowledge in the discipline
Basic Research
Statistic that will allow one to compute the association between two quantitative variables created by Karl Pearson.
Pearson's Product Moment Correlation Coefficient
Stratified Sample
When the researcher erroneously discusses two different units of analysis as if the results acquired from one are applicable to the other.
Ecological Fallacy
Reason Stan Humphreys research was unethical
Didn't Respect Subject's Privacy
Research over several months or years
Longitudinal Research
Level of measurement with categories but no rank, no numbers, no real zero
Interval Level of Measurement
When several samples are drawn and normally distributed by mathematical probabilities.
Central Limit Theorem
A Variable that may occur between the I.V. and D.V.
Intervening Variable
Ethical reason Rik Scarce was sent to jail for 165 days
Maintain Anonymity of the Source
Things one can see, touch, taste, hear, or smell when examining phenomenon.
Empirical Evidence
The numerical mistakes embedded in drawing a sample from a population.
Sampling Error
It is often difficult to get the entire population but this allows for as much of it as possible to draw the sample from
Sampling Frame
When a relationship between two variables seems to exist but actually does not
Spurious
Not the Alternate Hypothesis. The other one in an experiment
Null Hypothesis
Research conducted for an organization to enhance profit
Applied Research
Empirical evidence, usually quantitative, that people gather during research
Data
Table used to randomly select cases for a sample
Random -numbers table
Another name for the causal variable
Independent Variable
When someone copies another's work and inappropriately takes credit for it.
Plagiarism
Moving a concept to a variable by moving from a conceptual definition to something measurable.