This type of measurement scale involves the rank ordering of a set of behaviors or characteristics.
What is Ordinal
100
This is the definition of reliability
What is "The extent to which a measuring technique is consistent and dependable"
100
This is the definition of Face Validity
What is the extent to which a measure appears to measure what it is suppose to.
100
An IV must have two or more of these
What are "levels"
100
Characteristics that a participant has before going into the expriment
What are Subject Variables
200
This type of measure in behvioral research can be broken down into the subsets of Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral.
What is Self-Report
200
These are the five major issues that can contribute to measurement error
What are transient states, stable attributes, situational factors, characteristics of the measurment, and mistakes in recording.
200
In order to have construct validity, a measure must have these two types of validity.
What are Convergent and Discriminant Validity
200
Three types of IV manipulations
What are environmental manipulations, instructional manipulations, and invasive manipulations
200
Advantages of within subjects design
What are the study has more statistical power and fewer participants are needed
300
This type of scale uses equal differences between numerical scores that has no real zero
What is Interval scale
300
These are the ways to assess reliability
What are test-retest reliability, inter-item reliability, and inter-rater reliability
300
This is an example of predictive validity
What are "SAT scores" etc.
300
A control group recieves a _______ level of IV
What is "zero"
300
Some order effects of within subjects design.
What are "practice effects", "Fatigue effects", "sensitization", "carry over effects"
400
This is a method researchers can use to more accurately assess variables by using multiple measures.
What is "Converging Operations" or "Triangulation"
400
These are ways to increase the reliability of measures
What are standardizing administration, clarifying instructions and questions (pilot testing), training observers, minimize error and coding data.
400
Definition: Criterion Validity
What is "The extent to which a measure allows us to distinguish among participants on the basis of a particular behavioral criterion."
400
People will run these two things to make sure that the IV has been successfully manipulated
What is Pilot test and Manipulation check
400
What are some reasons why using the web for participant studies unreliable?
What are: Researchers have difficulty identifying and controling the nature of the sample, hard to minimize error variance, participants fail to complete study, and/or web studies are limited in the research paradigms.
500
This is the study of Psychological measurement
What is "Psychometrics"
500
This is the relationship of variance to reliability (was expressed as an equation)
What is Reliability= True score variance/total variance
500
When a particular measure is not equally valid for everyone who takes the test
What is Test Bias
500
These are the conditions of a well designed expriment
What are the researcher varies at least one IV, Random assignment, and control of extraneous variables.
500
Five tips for minimizing error variance
What are homogeneous sample, treat all participants the same, hold lab conditions constant, standardize all research procedures, use reliable research procedures