Science of Psych
Biorhythms, graphology, and astrology are examples of this
What is pseudoscience?
"Our empirical hypothesis was that different presenting cues would cause markedly different test preferences consistent with the model’s behavior."
What is the introduction section?
Perceived sexism and gender blindness
What are the dependent variables?
The large sample size suggests this study has this.
What is good statistical validity?
The type of study conducted
What is an experiment?
"God exists" is a claim that does not have this.
What is falsifiability?
"In total, 56 participants (22 women) completed the experiment."
What is the method section?
Number of male interns berated
What is the independent variable?
The question "does this same phenomenon happen with racism" is related to this type of validity.
What is external validity?
The fact that p < .001 indicates the results are this.
What is statistically significant?
The three fundamental features of science are systematic empiricism, empirical questions, and this.
What is public knowledge?
"Significant and positive correlations were found between accuracy and total tests selected (r = .30, p < .05), as well as accuracy and maximum posterior belief (r = .29, p < .05)."
What is the results section?
Sexism of the participants
What is an extraneous variable?
The use of random assignment improves this type of validity of this study.
What is internal validity?
"The more participants saw Spencer being rude toward male interns, the less they thought he was sexist" is this type of claim.
What is an association claim?
In the circular model of the method of scientific research, this follows empirical study.
What is data analysis?
"The patterns of information acquisition observed in our experiment show that belief updating, not other statistical properties of the data environment, guided test selection."
What is the discussion section?
What Spencer told Amy (i.e., He doesn't understand "why the firm keeps hiring women like you.")
What is a control variable?
Participants indicated how much they agreed that Spencer was sexist, prejudiced against women, misogynistic, and biased against women. Gowron criticizes this measure because participants might not know what the word misogynistic means. Gowron has criticized this type of validity.
What is construct validity?
What is good internal reliability?
Examples include studies of brain function, but not studies of teaching styles.
What is basic research?
"Our study had several strengths. First, the pretest/posttest design in Studies 1 and 2 measured change in people’s moral convictions."
What is the discussion section?
The amount participants had to read is this type of variable because the more male interns that were berated, the more the participants had to read.
What is a confound?
Gowron notes that although the findings were statistically significant, the size of the effect is not all that large. Gowron is criticizing this type of validity.
What is statistical validity?
They concluded that the more participants saw Spencer being rude toward male interns, the less sexist and gender blind participants thought Spencer was. If this conclusion is wrong, the researchers made this type of error.
What is a Type I error?