The Science of Psychology
Accepting new ideas because some authority figure states that they are true refers to this method of knowing.
What is Authority?
Refers to all the published research in that field.
What is research literature?
A joint policy of Canada’s 3 federal research agencies
What is the Tri-Council Policy Statement 2 (TCPS2)?
This type of definition can include: self-report measures, behavioral measures and/or physiological measures
What is an operational definition?
A 5-point rating scale
What is a likert scale?
The feature of science that states science is a social process—a large-scale collaboration.
What is Public Knowledge?
A monograph is this type of research publication.
What is a scholarly book?
The first Ethics Code published specifically for psychologists.
What is the American Psychological Association Ethics Code (APA Ethics Code)?
This level of measurement involves assigning scores using numerical scales and may include a "0", but it is not a true zero.
This type of survey item simply asks a question and allows participants to answer in whatever way they choose.
What are open-ended items?
The intuitive beliefs about people’s behavior, thoughts, and feelings
What is folk psychology?
Range, standard deviation, and variance are all types of this measure.
What are measures of dispersion?
This Principle of the CPA Code is generally given the highest weighting.
What is Principle I. Respect for the Dignity of Persons and Peoples?
Refers to the consistency of a measure.
What is reliability?
Occurs when there is a systemic difference between survey non-responders from survey responders.
What is non-response bias?
ACT, CBT, DBT, and exposure therapy.
What are empirically supported treatments?
A coherent explanation or interpretation of one or more phenomena.
What is a theory?
This section of an APA-style article is where you commonly find limitations and future directions.
What is the Discussion section?
This type of validity refers to the extent to which people’s scores on a measure are correlated with other variables that one would expect them to be correlated with.
What is criterion validity?
The beginning phase of an ABA design which acts as a kind of control condition
What is baseline?
Astrology, phrenology, and homeopathy are all examples of this.
What is pseudoscience?
This type of error is also known as a missed opportunity.
What is Type II Error?
In an in-text citation, this follows the surname of the first author when an article has >2 authors.
What is "et al."?
A form of criterion validity, where the criterion is measured at the same time as the construct.
What is concurrent validity?
This strategy is when a researcher waits until the participant’s behaviour in one condition becomes consistent before changing conditions.
What is the Steady State Strategy?