Measuring a variable or set of variables as they exist naturally
What is a descriptive research strategy?
100
The loss of participants as a study progresses
What is attrition or participant attrition?
100
Prediction, evaluating theories, and assessing reliability and validity are all applications of this design?
What is a correlational research design?
100
Counting the instance of a specific behavior within a fixed period is an example of this.
What is the frequency method?
100
A process using random assignment in which the research can ensure the group sizes are equal (balanced).
What is restricted random assignment?
200
The design used when the researcher systematically observes and records behavior of individuals.
What is an observational research design?
200
Changes in behavior or performance caused by the lingering effects of previous treatments.
What are carryover effects?
200
Obtained by squaring the r value.
What is the coeffecient of determination?
200
You spend weeks observing the behaviors of meerkats
What is naturalistic observation?
200
In correlational research, changes in this variable are used to predict changes in the criterion variable?
What is the predictor variable?
300
Your participants are given a battery of tests after breakfast and then, a week later, the same participants are given the same tests after an afternoon meal.
What is a within-subjects or repeated measures design?
300
A basic Latin Square is an example of this.
What is counterbalancing?
300
The problem with correlational research as demonstrated by the positive relationship between churches and bars.
What is the third-variable problem?
300
You spend months living with a culture in a remote part of the world and interacting with those with whom you live..
What is participant observation?
300
Assigning individuals to groups so that a specific variable, such as gender, is balanced between groups.
What is matching, matching groups, or matched assignment?
400
May be used to investigate motor vehicle death rates before and after a new speed limit is put in place
What is a time-series design?
400
The nomothetic approach is the study of groups. This approach is the study of individuals.
What is the idiographic approach?
400
A relationship in which both variables move in the same direction.
What is a positive relationship?
400
A type of observation in which you facilitate the occurrence of the behavior being studied.
What is contrived or structured observation?
400
This distinguishes quasi-experimental from nonexperimental research?
What is the degree to which threats to internal validity are controlled?
500
The use of observational techniques to measure the occurrence of specific events in Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well
What is content analysis?
500
When, in a repeated-measures design, one treatment produces more of an order effect than another.
What is an asymmetrical order effect?
500
A relationship that is consistently one directional (either positive or negative)?
What is monotonic?
500
Repeated exposure to the observer's presence until it is no longer a novel event.
What is habituation?
500
Also known as an "ex post facto" design, it simply compares preexisiting groups based on a variable of interest such as gender, race, or personality.