Reliability/Validity
Introduction
Observation
Sampling
Variability and Curve
100
I give you the midterm today and give you the same midterm next week.
What is test-retest?
100
The goal is to understand psychological processes?
What is Basic?
100
When you directly interact with the people you are observing and lose objectively?
What is participant observation?
100
The most popular convenience sample.
What is college students?
100
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What is the mean of the normal curve?
200
The mother of all validity
What is construct validity?
200
When the goal is to find solutions for the problems.
What is applied research?
200
When you maintain objectiveness and lose the rich detail in your observation?
What is participant observation?
200
When you take every nth subject.
What is systematic?
200
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What is the standard deviation of normal curve?
300
When you compare 1/2 the test to the other half of the test?
What is split half reliability?
300
The goal is to use behavioral methods to assess the effects of social programs?
What is evaluation methods?
300
When you examine stories of individuals.
What is narratives?
300
When you simply pull names out of hat until you reach the desired sample size.
What is Simple random sampling?
300
When the scores are clustered on the left and the tail is in on the right?
What is positive skewed?
400
When you know the ranking, but not the distance between scores?
What is ordinal scores?
400
The type of research is where you can draw cause and effect conclusions.
What is experimental?
400
One of the cheapest and easiest ways to get data as you can collect many answers either in person or online?
What is surveys?
400
When you randomly sample within groups so you have equal numbers of boys and girls.
What is stratified sample?
400
When the scores are clustered on the right and the tail is in on the left?
What is negatively skewed?
500
When you have an absolute zero, equal intervals, and know the order?
What is ratio?
500
The conclusions are only relationships and not causation?
What is correlation?
500
When you have the ability to sit down individually or in group and are able to ask follow up questions?
What is interviews?
500
When you sample within metropolitan area, followed by district, school, and class.
What is cluster sampling?
500
When there is something that effects all student's scores (e.g., wrong answer key, wrong instructions read)
What is systematic variance?
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