Variables
It can change value.
What is a variable?
The total divided by the number of scores.
What is the mean?
Located in the upper left-hand corner of an APA manuscript.
What is the running head?
Describes something.
What is the descriptive research strategy?
What is the null hypothesis?
This causes changes in behavior.
What is the independent variable?
This statistic can never be greater than 1.
What is Pearson's r?
The only paragraph in an APA manuscript that is not indented.
Measures strenght and direction of a relationship between two variables, but not cause and effect.
What is the correlational research strategy?
What is the alternate hypothesis?
Everything but the IV and DV.
What are extraneous variables?
The value predicted from X.
What is Y-prime?
Bold, centered, title case.
What is a Level 1 heading?
Like an experiment, but not.
What is the quasiexperimental research strategy?
Claiming there was no effect when one exists in the population.
What is a Type II error?
The behavior.
What is the dependent variable?
Branch of statistics that allows researchers to make statements about populations based on sample data.
What are inferential statistics?
The title, the authors, and their affiliations.
What goes on the title page?
Just describes the relationship between variables.
This is a statement about the relationship between two variables.
What is the hypothesis?
A threat to internal validity.
What is a confounding variable?
The observed difference divided by the difference expected by chance.
What is a standard score?
The "and" in a parenthetical citation and the reference section?
What is an ampersand?
Establishes cause and effect.
What is a true experiment?
Like a false positive.
What is a Type I error?