Definitions
What is Research?
Research means careful and detailed study into a specific problem, concern, or issue
Refers to consistency or dependability of behavioural data resulting from psychological testing or experimental research
What is Validity?
Information produced by the research or testing accurately measures the psychological variable or quality it is intended to measure
What are the four types of measurement?
Nominal, Ordinal, Ratio, and Interval
Self-report measures defined and an example?
measures in which respondents are asked to report directly on their own behaviours, beliefs, attitudes, or intentions. Example: Measuring how long we are on facebook in a day
Understand human behaviour. Can be about how people think and how they feel.
Findings of scientific research
Test-Retest defined
Test the same group of people multiple times getting the same results
What are five types of Validity?
Face Validity, Content Validity, Construct Validity, Internal Validity and External Validity
What is Interval? And an example?
Measurement involves assigned scores so that they represent the precise magnitude of differences between individuals. Ex: IQ
those in which some other aspect of participants' behaviour is observed and recorded. Example: BoBo doll experiment
What are two types of Observation?
Naturalistic or Field and laboratory
Interrater defined
All scores determined the same by multiple individuals
Self esteem assessment test or measures what it intends to measure
What is Ratio? Example?
Measurement involves assigned scores in such a way that there is a true zero point. EX: I have zero siblings
Physiological Measures defined and an Example?
heart rate, blood pressure, sweating, physical body changes. Example: Lie Detector test
What is measurement?
Assignment of scores to individual (Scores represent some characteristics of the individual)
Internal consistency defined
consistency of a person's/group's responses over time on the same scale
What is an example of content validity?
Personality Test, Anxiety Test (assessments)
Level of measurement is used for categorical variables and involving assigned scores that are category labels. EX: Male or Female
Manipulation Measurement
What is Observation?
Act of meticulously viewing another's interactions with his or her surroundings.
What is an example of interrater
Rating or judging
Example of Construct Validity
measurement of human brain (Intelligence)
What is Ordinal? Example?
Measurement involves assigning scores so they represent the rank order of the individual. EX:Ranking (Assigning Scores)
Define DV
Measurement in experiment