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Empiricism
What is knowledge acquired through the senses
A distribution which has most of the data points in the middle and the lowest amount of data points in each tail
What is the normal distribution
Other names for between subjects designs
What is uncorrelative, unpaired, between group, independent
If this validity is high it means that assessment APPEARS suitable for its intended purpose
What is face validity
name a measure of effect size
eta squared, cohen's d
Basic vs applied research
Basic = research for the sake of gaining knowledge; applied = research to answer a specific real world question
A distribution where most of the scores fall to the right
What is a positive skew
Other names for within subjects designs
What is paired, correlative, repeated, dependent
Assesses if the measurement covers all aspects of the construct. Often assessed qualitatively by comparing the measurement to the concept's definition.
What is Content Validity
An explanation or interpretation of one or more phenomena
What is a theory
What is the act of disproving a theory or hypothesis; science requires hypotheses to be falsifiable
A distribution where the mean, median and mode are all in the same location
Other names for spread
What is error, dispersion, variation
The ability of a test to have an accurate idea of future behaviour
What is predictive validity
3 core ethical principles
Concern for welfare, Justice, Respect for persons
A distribution that is relatively uniform but with a few more scores in the middle than in the tails
What is a platykurtic distribution
Other names for measures of central tendency
What is mean, median and mode
True or false: Validity is the consistency of a measure
false - that is reliability
The principle that states the simplest answer is often the best
What is Occam's Razor/Parsimony
Downsides to paired designs?
True or false: A normal distribution can also be skewed or kutotic
False
Examples of population statistics
SEM, CI
Carina reveal the drawing on the board
Which of these dartboards is RELIABLE but not VALID
What is the one that has the cluster to one side
The measure of central tendency used for nominal data
What is mode