Phrenology and astrology would be referred to as this type of science.
What is pseudoscience?
100
An advantage to this type of survey questions is that it is exploratory and does not lead the participant by suggesting certain answers.
What are open-ended questions?
100
Oh no! In your study you found teen exposure to violent movies and teen drug use to be correlated and assumed violent media caused drug use, but in truth, lack of parental supervision is the cause of both. You have run into this type of problem.
What is the third variable problem?
100
In my study, I find there is no relationship between one's gender identity and intelligence. My Pearson's Correlation Coefficient would equal ________.
What is 0?
100
I am interested in the typical stories that are told during AA meetings. I go to a meeting but do not interact with the members to any great extent; I just sit and observe. This would be considered _____________ participant observation.
What is passive?
200
Danielle believes that women are more emotional than men because it makes "common sense"; the more she thinks it, the more she believes it! She is relying on this method for her knowledge.
What is the method of tenacity
200
A question that asks the participant which color they like the best, purple or blue. This is a _____________ question.
What is forced-choice?
200
The word "generalizability" is roughly equivalent to this type of validity.
What is external validity?
200
My r value for amount of television watched and work productivity is -.38. This would be described as a _________, __________ correlation.
What is a moderate, negative correlation?
200
You review etiquette columns in old newspapers over three decades to get information about how social mores have changed. You are using this type of data, which involves other's recordings of past events.
What is archival?
300
This form of knowing involves reliance on empirical evidence.
What is the scientific method
300
Survey research (like with our exercise counting M&M colors) can provide us with a ____________, or a description of the "typical" characteristics of the population.
What is a point estimate?
300
Careless coding, something weird happens when giving your test, a participant is in a bad mood on the day they take the test, someone accidentally fills in the wrong bubble on the Scantron. These are all examples of __________.
What is random error?
300
This can be conceptualized as a signal-to-noise ratio.
What is a t-test?
300
I ask people to write about a time when they have been given the silent treatment, and later look for themes, like situations (after a transgression) or the people talked about (someone you knew well or mere acquaintance). I am using this type of analysis.
What is content analysis?
400
Benny uses both self-report and observational methods to collect info on elementary school students' personalities. This would be considered methodological ____________.
What is pluralism?
400
One problem with survey techniques like "call your response into the radio" is that self-selected participants are likely to have some form of this.
What is volunteer bias?
400
This is a statistic that measures consistency, and measures how well a set of variables or items measures a single, unidimensional latent construct.
What is Cronbach's Alpha?
400
This is the traditional procedure scientists use to decide whether the observed difference between the research groups is due to chance or the result of a “real” difference between the groups.
What is a NHST? (Null Hypothesis Significance Test)
400
When my participants know they are being observed, the tend to work harder and do better on my test of mental acuity, which is an example of this.
What is the Hawthorne effect?
500
If you tailor your language and presentation of results to APA style, you are using the ___________ of justification.
What is rhetoric?
500
I decide to take my population and divide it into subgroups of Republicans, Democrats, and Libertarians, and then randomly survey 100 people from each subgroup.
What is stratified random sampling?
500
My measure of relational aggression correlates highly with another measure of social aggression, which is a very similar construct. My scale can be said to have good ___________ validity.
What is convergent validity?
500
This is the probability of making the right choice to reject the null.
What is power?
500
I have a confederate knock over a can of soda and observe the helping behavior that results from passerbys. This kind of unobtrusive observation would be described as _________.