Experiments
What is measured by researchers. It is often thought of as the "effect."
What is the dependent variable?
A test run when you want to look at the relationship between two continuous variables.
What is a correlation? Also would take Pearson's r
A governing body at universities that reviews research studies before they are conducted, specifically considering participants' rights. It also provides ethical training for researchers.
What is the Institutional Review Board (IRB)?
Gender is an example of this type of measurement.
What is a nominal?
A popular survey platform used to create and distribute surveys.
What is Qualtrics?
In an experiment, this is manipulated by the researcher.
What is the independent variable?
The test you run when comparing a continuous variable across two different groups of people.
What is an independent samples t-test?
An example of this is using pseudonyms when presenting results to protect study participants' data.
What is a confidentiality?
Facial EMG, skin conductance, and eye tracking are all examples of this kind of measurement.
What is psychophysiological?
The survey design that gets closest to real world experience.
What is mobile surveying?
A procedure used in experiments to create multiple study groups while avoiding confounds
What is random assignment?
The test you run when you have an experiment with 4 conditions and your DV is continuous.
What is an ANOVA?
The use of this requires a complete and accurate description of the study is to be provided to participants after study completion.
What is deception?
The extent to which a measurement is consistent from one time to the next.
What is reliability?
Trend, cohort, and panel are all types of this survey design.
What is longitudinal?
A person who pretends to be a participant but is actually part of the research team.
What is a confederate?
A measure of effect size used when running a test of mean difference on 3+ groups.
What is eta-squared?
People are given this prior to participating in a study, it includes the length of the study, as well as potential risks, harms, and benefits.
What is a consent form?
When participants change their behavior due to a pre-test.
What is sensitization?
"Event" is a type of mobile survey _______.
What is trigger?
The difference between a natural experiment and a field experiment.
Who conducts the random assignment?
The name for the first step in your ANOVA before you conduct post-hoc analyses.
What is an omnibus test?
What is voluntary participation?
The tendency for participants to answer questions in a way they feel they are "supposed" to.
What are demand characteristics?
An example of ______ is when Billy answers the life satisfaction scale lower than usual after answering a question about his low income.
What are order effects?