Measurement Scales
Social Support: Low, Medium, High
What is an Ordinal Scale?
Anna O, Little Albert, HM, and Phineas Gage.
What are Case Studies?
I often feel that I am not on the verge of a panic attack.
What is Negative Wording?
Participants in a study on physical fitness are asked to track their weekly exercise routines. They exercise more than they normally would, even though their data is anonymous.
What is the Reactivity Effect?
A marketer studying consumer reactions to an advertising campaign gathers data from employees within their company.
What is Convenience (Non-probability) Sampling?
Diagnostic categories in the DSM-5.
What is a Nominal Scale?
Counting how many bystanders help someone in need.
What is Systematic Observation?
Rate the extent to which you feel that your maladaptive cognitive distortions have been restructured through CBT interventions.
What is Simplicity (or lack thereof)?
An interviewer nods enthusiastically every time a participant expresses a particular opinion.
What is Interviewer Bias?
To study a rare personality disorder, you find a few people with this disorder. From there, those participants refer you to others within their support groups that also have the disorder.
What is Snowball/Referral (Non-Probability) Sampling?
IQ Scores.
What is an Interval Scale?
Behavior of Employees in an Open-Plan Office.
What is Naturalistic Observation?
I feel good about myself and enjoy positive relationships with my friends.
What is Double-Barreled?
What is Social Desirability Bias?
A researcher wants to study parenting styles in a country but cannot feasibly survey parents from every city. Instead, they randomly select several cities and survey all parents within those cities.
What is cluster (probability) sampling
Number of Therapy Sessions Attended.
What is a Ratio Scale?
Analyses of mental health diagnosis trends in the DSM.
What is Archival Research?
I experience intrusions of ruminative thoughts that elicit emotional dysregulation.
What is Simplicity?
100% of the time, it works every time....but only 2 people out of 100 reported their results.
What is Response Rate Bias?
A study aims to measure stress levels across various professions in Shreveport, LA. The researcher divides the population into different occupational categories (e.g., healthcare workers, teachers, engineers, and office workers) and then randomly selects participants from each occupation.
What is Stratified (Probability) Sampling?
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What is an Ordinal Scale?
Monitoring sleep patterns in a controlled laboratory.
What is Systematic Observation?
I waste my life on social media instead of being productive.
What is a Loaded statement?
A therapist talks to you in an exclusively concerned, somber tone.
What is Interviewer Bias?
A study on smoking habits divides the population into high, medium, and low socioeconomic status (SES) groups. The researcher recruits even numbers of each category from their local health clinic.
What is Quota (Non-Probability) Sampling?