Rigor and Validity
Design
Data Collection
Descriptive
Hodge Podge
Inference
Prediction
100
The accuracy and consistency of obtained information defines...
What is Reliability
100
Visual representation of a study is achieved through scatter plots describes...
What is Correlation Design
100
Mutually exclusiveness defined by one or more characteristics.
What is Sampling Strata
100
Which measure of central tendency is most affected by skewed data sets...
What is the Mean
100

A measure of variance...how far is the score from the mean

What is Standard Deviation

100

Classifying Gender, Blood Type, or Marital Status as a number. 

What is Nominal Data

100

Y = a + bX

What is Linear Regression

200
Findings are convincing and well-grounded will define...
What is Validity
200
Uses people's characteristics to create comparable groups.
What is Matching Design
200
When the researcher hand selects the participants the sample is said to be...
What is Purposive sampling
200
95% of the population will be within how many Standard Deviations from the mean.
What is Two
200

Spearman's Rho correlation coefficient is used with what level of measurement

What is Ordinal level variables

200

It has equal levels of measurement and can have negative numbers

What is Interval Data

200

A 2 x 2 Table, helps the researcher determine...

What is the Risk?

300
Producing a distortion in the study results...
What is Bias
300
Can provide more data with less participants as long as randomization and insurance of equivalence between groups is present
What is Crossover Design
300

To figure out the percentage of the strata in a population and make sure the sample has the same percentage.

What is Quota Sampling

300
A range measurement that looks at the middle 50% of participants in a sample is...
What is the Interquartile range or IQR
300

Questions that require a choice between two options are called....

What is a dichotomous questions

300

The sum of the scores divided by the number of scores.

What is the mean?

300

The number of people with adverse outcomes relative to those without it.

What is the Odds Ratio (OR)

400
The effect on the dependent variable resulting from subjects' awareness that they are participants under study.
What is the Hawthorne Effect
400
Withholding information about participants, data collectors, care providers, intervention agents, or data analyst to enhance objectivity and minimize bias.
What is Blinding or Masking Design
400
Structured self report instruments such as Likert scales, and semantic differentials, and Cognitive tests are known as...
What is Composite Scales
400
When two samples with identical means differ in variability.
What is Kurtosis
400

Sampling design that involve random selection of elements from the population, and yield more representative samples

What is Probability sampling

400

Deviation scores represent the degree to which each person's score deviates from the mean. 

What is Standard Deviation?

400

The researcher writes (p>.05) this means...

What is, the results are Not Statistically Significant

500
Involves holding the conditions of the study constant and establishing specific sampling criteria
What is Research Control
500
Cross-sectional, Retrospective, or Prospective are all included in this type of design category
What is Time Design
500
Bio physiologic Data measurements performed within or on living organisms
What is In Vivo measurement
500
The range of values within which a population parameter is estimated to lie, at a specific probability
What is The Confidence Interval
500

Temporal ambiguity, selection, history, maturation, attrition, are all what type of problem for researchers?

What is a threat to Internal Validity

500

A table that gives information about bivariate frequencies is a...

What is a Crosstabs table?

500
A test that looks at the differences in proportions and is distribution-free is..

What is Chi Square?

600

Concerned with the theory and methods of psychological measurement, including reliability and validity

What is Psychometrics

600

When two or more observers are measuring the same aspect to see if scores are rated consistently we must measure...

What is inter-rater reliability

600

Using a Qualitative design to interpret phenomenology that focuses on the lived experiences of humans and how they interpret those experiences.

What is Hermeneutics

600

Samples ranging from 20 to 30 participants and use of constant comparison, involving the researcher focusing on emerging conceptualization

What is Grounded Theory

600

A prediction that the results found in a sample are likely to be found in a larger population.

What is Inferential studies?

600

When you find more variation of variance, it is said to be...

What is Heteroscedasticity?

600

An instruments ability to identify non-cases correctly (true negatives)

What is Specificity?

M
e
n
u