All About Empiricism
The feature that is most important in our acceptance of a theory
What is: supported by data?
The principles of the Belmont Report.
What are: respect for persons, beneficence, and justice
Measures a participant's biological data
What is: a physiological measure?
The necessary component of a frequency claim
What is: one measured variable?
Response sets threaten this kind of validity.
What is construct validity?
The most important part of empiricism:
What is: basing our conclusions on direct observations
The circumstances when deception can be used
What is: when it is followed with debriefing?
A variable whose levels are based on quantifiable values (i.e. height)
What is: a quantitative variable?
The necessary components of an association claim.
Without random sampling, this validity is threatened.
What is: external validity?
The two major reasons that experience is a fault source of evidence for our beliefs.
What are: confounds and no comparison group?
The board that oversees animal experimentation.
What is: IACUC?
A study design in which different groups of participants are placed at different levels of the independent variable
The necessary components of a causal claim.
What are: one manipulated variable and one measured variable?
Observer bias is a threat to this validity
What is: construct validity?
The meaning of the phrase "research is probabilistic"
What is: the probability that their theories are correct.
The reason that the Milgram obedience experiment was violated?
What is: the participants suffered from mental stress, outweighing research benefits?
A study design in which participants are exposed to all levels of the independent variable at roughly the same time.
What is: concurrent measures design?
The three criteria necessary for causation
What are: covariance, temporal precedence, and internal validity?
Without random assignment, this validity is threatened.
What is: internal validity?
The parts of the theory-data cycle.
The study that served as the basis for the Belmont Report
What is: The Tuskeegee Syphillis study?
The research design that prevents selection effects
What is: matched-groups design?
Name this claim: Students who drink coffee before studying are more likely to have higher scores on the exam.
What is: an association claim?
Low power is a threat to this kind of validity.