A study that uses a questionnaire to look for relationships between empathy and volunteer behavior is an example of this type of strategy.
What is a correlational design?
100
An important part of establishing experimental control is limiting these.
What are confounds?
100
When 30 participants yield 90 observations, researchers must be using this design.
What is a within-subjects design?
100
This is the degree to which your study produces a single, unambiguous explanation for relationship between variables
What is internal validity?
200
"54% of UNO students identify as democrats" is an example of this type of study
What is a descriptive research study?
200
When people tell you that private school is better than public school because kids from private schools are more likely to go to college than kids from public schools, they are missing this important, and common, third variable.
What is SES?
200
Individual differences are a problem for this design type.
What is a between-subjects design?
200
If a questionnaire of marital satisfaction is found to predict rates of divorce later on, it is high in this type of validity.
What is predictive validity?
200
Using primarily college students in psychological studies has sometimes led to this problem.
What are unrepresentative samples/sample bias/low external validity?
300
A study in which the research assigns participants to either receive a treatment or control condition is this type of study.
What is an experimental study?
300
If you have evidence that shows that variable A preceded variable B, you have met this requirements for establishing causality.
What is temporal precedence?
300
When using within-subjects designs, order effects are minimized using this strategy.
What is counterbalancing?
300
If your new measure of self-esteem is based on how many shoes one owns, you are low in this type of validity.
What is face validity?
300
In order to verify that our mood induction technique has worked, we do this
What is a manipulation check?
400
H.M., a man with damage to his temporal lobe, participated in multiple studies on different types of memory using this research strategy.
What is a case study?
400
The link between ice cream sales and murder rates is the result of this problem
What is the third variable problem?
400
With between-subjects designs, individual differences are minimized using this technique.
What is random assignment?
400
If the findings of your study to not generalize outside of the lab, you are low in this type of validity.
What is external validity?
400
The Asch study of social conformity used this type of realism.
What is experimental/psychological realism?
500
A study of social intelligence in participants with or without generalized anxiety disorder is an example of this type of study.
What is a quasi-experimental study?
500
When variable A increases, variable B decreases, indicating this requirement of establishing causality has been met.
What is covariation?
500
Cross-sectional research is difficult due to these effects you may see with different age groups.
What is a cohort effect?
500
If your assessment of aggression in children is not related to their general activity levels, your measure is high in this type of validity.
What is divergent validity?
500
This explains the tendency for extremely tall parents to have children that are not as tall as they are.