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Reliability/Validity
Survey Research
Sampling
Experiements
Feeling Lucky
100
____________ is achieved when researchers are consistent in their use of data collection procedures and when participants react consistently to them.
What is reliability?
100
_________ is a system for collecting information to describe, compare, or explain knowledge, attitudes, and behavior; also known as questionnaire or poll.
What is a survey?
100
A subset of that population is ______________.
What is sample?
100
_________ ____________ procedure in which each participant or element has an equal chance of being assigned to any one of the treatment or control groups of the independent variable.
What is random assignment?
100
__________ uses the same survey at different points in time using the same people.
What is cohort design?
200
Reliability is reported using the statistic ____________. (hint: Greek letter)
What is Chronbach's alpha or α
200
Reach a lot of people, people can fill out when they have time, target specific groups, people will more likely completing the survey are all advantages of ___________ ______________.
What is mailing surveys?
200
____________ is a characteristic of a sample in which probability for selection is equal; decreases bias.
What is random?
200
____________ is a threat to internal validity of research as participants change over the course of the observations.
What is maturation?
200
_____________ is a measure of a secondary variable to determine if the experimental variable actually operated as planned in the study.
What is a manipulation test?
300
______________ is achieved when the measurement does what it is intended to do; related to truthfulness or accuracy in measurement.
What is validity?
300
In a questionnaire, two questions in one is called ______________.
What are double-barreled questions?
300
_____________ ______________ sampling is a form of random sampling in which the population is divided according to subgroups of interest, then elements are randomly selected from each subgroup with respect to the proportion as a whole.
What is stratified random?
300
The process of minimizing the influence of extraneous factors (factors that we do not care about) in an experiment is called _____________.
What is elimination?
300
__________ variables generate scores at one and only one experimental condition.
What is between-subjects variables?
400
__________ validity ensures that new measurement is measuring the same thing as old measurement.
What is concurrent?
400
Three common forms of survey research are:
What is questionnaire, interview analysis, and network analysis?
400
_____________ sampling is a form of non-probability sampling; researcher hand-picks the cases to be included in the sample (hint: think of gang members).
What is purposive/known group?
400
An experiment with a 2x2x4 factorial design has ______ factors and ______ conditions.
What is 3 & 16?
400
An "O" signifies _____________ and an "X" signifies ______________.
What are dependent and independent variables?
500
Variance true/variance total is an accurate way to conceptualize what?
What is reliability?
500
Being able to respond however you want to a question is called an _________ ____________.
What is open-ended question?
500
When participants act differently because they know someone is watching, it is called the _____________ _____________.
What is the Hawthorn effect?
500
___________ interaction from two IV's that does not cross itself and ___________ interaction from two IV's that does cross itself. (hint: remember the X)
What is ordinal and disordinal?
500
When people get anxious when they know they are being tested it is called __________.
What is the testing effect?