Doing Research
Ethics
Non-experimental Research
Validity and Reliability
Random Other Stuff
100
This test assesses differences in group means when the groups are independent of each other.
What is a two-sample (independent sample) t-test?
100
The group on campus that approves data collection for a research project.
What is the IRB?
100
Jane Goodall-style observation where the "participants" are unaware they are observed.
What is naturalistic observation?
100
Establishing that your new survey is useful in predicting a future outcome.
What is predictive/criterion validity?
100
Type of error that occurs when the alternative hypothesis is actually true, but you reject it for the null.
What is type 2 error?
200
The default assumption for a statistical test.
What is a null hypothesis?
200
Active (lying) and passive (omission) are two forms of this.
What is deception?
200
Research design that uses open, axial, and selective coding to develop theory.
What is grounded theory?
200
Your measurement works as well this week as next week.
What is test-retest reliability?
200
Title of the Rosenhan article.
What is "On being sane in insane places"?
300
PsycINFO and Google Scholar, for example.
What are publication databases?
300
Psych 100 subject pools fail to meet this APA standard for ethical research.
What is avoiding coercion?
300
This often-mentioned article addresses questions of selection bias in research in the 1980s.
What is Sears (1986)?
300
A measured score is this plus error.
What is the true score.
300
Seligman's finding in his dog study.
What is learned helplessness?
400
The fallacy shown by this graph, for example:
What is "correlation does not imply causation"?
400
Increased whooping cough incidence in Texas and California may be a consequence of this.
What is fraudulent research?
400
Type of scale using 1-5 or 1-7 response options.
What is a Likert scale?
400
Use this to establish that you're measuring this construct, not that construct.
What is convergent/divergent validity?
400
The one question from the eyewitness study survey that showed a significant difference by feedback.
What is willingness to testify?
500
The section of an APA style paper where this appears:
"There was a significant main effect for treatment, F(1, 145) = 5.43, p = .02, and a significant interaction, F(2, 145) = 3.24, p = .04."
What is the results section?
500
Using an author's ideas without attribution.
What is plagiarism?
500
The Hawthorne effect, for example.
What is reactivity?
500
9/10 experts agree: You're measuring what you think you're measuring.
What is face/content validity? (Or inter-rater reliability)
500
Diedrich Stapel's motivation.
What is pressure to publish/succeed in academics?