Terms and Definitions
This term refers to the type of publications where unsupported data are ignored, undermined, or explained away. Research is cherry-picked, seeks to support, or is based on unsupported theories.
What is pseudoscience?
These are the two general problems that can exist with behavioral observation
What are observer influence and subjectivity?
True or false: a measure can be valid but not reliable
FALSE
This is the term for taking a statement/hypothesis and applying it to a specific, real-world, testable example
What is a prediction?
This Kellogg's cereal encourages you to "show your stripes"
What are Frosted Flakes?
This type of research claim asserts a relationship between two or more variables without talking about cause-and-effect
What is an associative claim?
This terms refers to the strategy where we get both participants and subjects used to the observer's presence
What is habituation?
This type of validity is the opposite of convergent validity, as it measures the extent to which our operationalization is UNrelated to measures that do not tap into the conceptual variable
What is discriminant validity?
In this type of scale of measurement, names are not organized into any specific hierarchy
What is a nominal scale?
These are the two most expensive properties on a board of Monopoly
What are Park Place and Boardwalk?
Describe the difference between a positive and negative correlation
Positive: as X increases Y increases OR as X decreases Y decreases
Negative: as X increases Y decreases or vice versa
In this type of behavioral observation, we engage in the same activities as the people being observed while recording them
What is participant observation?
These are three of the types of reliability
What are test-retest, parallel forms, inter-rater, internal and split-half?
In this type of reasoning, we use a use a general statement about a specific circumstance, event or process to make a prediction about a small set of specific observations
What is deductive reasoning?
The female musician has the most #1 hits out of any solo artist on the Billboard Top 100 with 19
Who is Mariah Carey?
These are the steps of the scientific method, as given by the HOMER acronym
What are hypothesize, operationalize, measure, evaluate, and revise/replicate/report?
These are the four ways for administering a survey
What are mail, phone, internet, and in-person?
With this type of validity, we compare our operationalization of the conceptual variable to the "gold standard"
What is concurrent validity?
This term is a hypothetical attribute or mechanism that helps to explain and predict behavior in a theory
What is a construct?
If your lab has a tile counter, don't use it to place solid carbon dioxide, aka this; the adhesive will be destroyed
What is dry ice?
These are the six ways of knowing/acquiring knowledge
What are the methods of tenacity, intuition, authority, rationality, empiricism, and science?
These are the three types of questions used in a survey research design
What are open-ended, restricted, and rating-scale questions?
When I go to a restaurant multiple times, rate it high the first time, and expect to rate it high again the next time, what type of reliability is being applied?
What is test-retest reliability?
This is a shared limitation (con) between both mail and internet surveys
What is low response rate/non-response bias?
This French turn-based role-playing video game won Game of the Year for 2025 along with 8 other awards for its soundtrack and storytelling
What is Clair Obscur: Expedition 33