Violence in children’s programming is a major research endeavor that requires counting the number of violent acts in Saturday morning cartoons for an entire year. The units of analysis being used for this project are _____.
What is social artifacts
100
Population for brown mackie students. Only interviewed Northern KY students. What type of experiment could this be?
What is quasi experiment
100
T-shirt size- S/M/L
What is Ordinal
100
When we say something is ______, we make a judgment about the extent to which relevant evidence supports that inference as being true or correct.
What is valid
200
In a classical experiment, the researcher uses a(n) ____________________ to offset the effects of the experiment itself.
What is control group
200
Sometimes it is necessary to make the same measurement more than once. This is known as _____.
What is test-retest method
200
Ranks in the local police department represent what level of measurement?
What is ordinal
200
If a researcher is concerned with whether a particular measurement technique will, after repeated measures, yield the same results, they are concerned with _____.
What is reliability
200
Concepts are ______.
What is mental images
300
Experiment that upbeat tempo of music makes a person run faster. What is the IV?
What is type of music
300
Ranks in the local police department represent what level of measurement?
What is ordinal
300
The test-retest method is used to examine _____.
What is reliability
400
If randomization is not possible, what should the researcher do?
What is quasi-experimental design
400
When referring to whether results from experiments conducted in one setting would be obtained in other settings, our main concern is one of _______________________.
What is external validity
500
A(n) _________________________ experiment guards against experimenters’ tendency to prejudge results by eliminating the possibility of either the researcher or the subjects knowing which group is the control and which group is the experimental.
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What is double-blind
500
Maturation as a threat to internal validity in experiments refers to _____.
What is as people grow and change, results can be impacted