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The most basic level of measurement
What is nominal ?
Mental images are called
What are conceptions?
The level at which both scales and indexes are measured
What is ordinal?
A level of measurement describing a variable whose attributes are rank-ordered and have equal distances between adjacent attributes are _____ measures (without a zero starting point)
What is interval?
The biggest strength of an experimental design is the ability to isolate the ______?
Classifying people as Brunette or Blonde treats Hair color as this type of measurement.
What is nominal?
The missing step in: Conceptualization, nominal definition, _________, and measurements in the real world
Operational definition
A commonly used scale that usually ranges from Strongly Disagree to Strongly agree
What is Likert Scale?
Classifying respondents as Lower, Middle, or Upper Class, treats Class as this type of measurement.
What is ordinal?
Including an illogical item in your index lacks what type of validity
What is face validity?
Finding one participant that is appropriate for your study and then asking them to refer you to another potential participant is an example of what type of sampling?
What is snowball sampling?
Nominal definition of income is how much money someone made. The operationalized version would be?
What is "In the year 2023, how much money did you make in dollars?"
A scale that asks respondents to rate something in terms of two opposite words.
What is Semantic Differential Scale?
Test retest and split half method are two ways of testing ______
What is reliability?
Making sure your index only addresses one domain and does not conflate several, adheres to what important characteristic of indexes?
What is unidimensionality?
A characteristic of experiments where neither the subjects in the experimental or control groups nor the experimenters know which are the experimental and control groups is called what?
What is double blind?
I give the same test three times to my class and the average is always the same. This exam is ____________.
What is reliable?
Checking to make sure that all items in your index are related and accurately measuring your dimension of interest is called
What is Internal Validity?
Sally is 52. If I say she is over 30 am I being accurate and/or precise? If I say she over 60 am I being accurate or precise? If I say she is 51 and 7 months am I being accurate or precise?
What is - accurate not precise, not accurate not precise, not accurate but precise ?
Testing political affiliation by asking respondents whether they are Democratic, Republican, or Liberal meets one criteria but not the other (mutually exclusive or exhaustive). Which criteria is lacking?
What is exhaustive?
The question of whether the experimental stimulus really affected the dependent variable, refers to what type of validity ?
What is internal validity ?
Melanie wants to better understand depression in children. Her team reviews the literature then they decide to create their own definition of childhood depression, coming to a consensus together. This process is called?
What is conceptualization?
An experiment consists of administering a brief survey to a group, having them watch a movie, then surveying them as they leave. What type of experimental design is this?
What is one group pretest posttest?
A _____ is the list of elements from which a probability sample is selected.
What is sampling frame?
A type of validity where you check if your item is comparable to another measure of the same variable is called?
What is criterion related validity?