Category 1
The degree to which a study's results can be generalized to individuals outside of the study
What is external validity?
The process of sending out an article to several reviewers who are expects on the topic
Peer review
Looking up records of behaviors that have already occurred
What is archival data collection?
A type of bias where participants get better on a task during a study
What is a Testing effect?
When we retain the null hypothesis when it's really false
What is a Type II error?
Types of questions that investigate fundamental aspects of behavior
What are basic research questions?
telling participants about what they will experience in the study
What is informed consent?
degree to which different observers rate behaviors in similar ways
What is interrater reliability?
A study where participants experience all levels of the variable
What is within-subjects?
The middle score in a distritbution
What is a median?
What is confirmation bias?
Fully explaining the purpose of the study to participants
What is debriefing?
What is a scatterplot?
What is a Stratified random sample?
A graph of a distribution that shows the frequency of each response
What is a frequency distribution?
Detailed review of past research in a topic area
A literature review
Principle associated with the reduction of risk of harm to the participants as compared to the benefits
What is Beneficence?
A variable that affects the results of the study, but is not a variable of interest in the study
Sampling technique where individuals are selected at random from a list of all phone numbers
What is a simple random sample?
What is criterion-related validity?
Reasoning used in theory-driven hypotheses
What is deductive
THe IRB equivalent for research with nonhuman animal subjects
What is the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee?
A solution to experimenter bias in a study
What is a Double-blind design?
The average difference between scores of a distribution and the mean of a distribution
What is standard deviation?
Sampling error when individuals chosen for the study do not respond to the survey
What is a Nonresponse error?