An attempt to reproduce the results of a previous study by using different operational definitions to represent the same construct.
What is conceptual replication?
100
The subjective view that a construct captures what it intends to measure.
What is face validity?
100
Every participant has an equal chance at being included in the study.
What is a random sample?
100
Question(s) that ask participants whether or not they noticed the experimental treatment.
What is a manipulation check?
200
Research conducted outside the lab in participants' own naturalistic environments.
What is a field study?
200
The extent to which a construct covers the complete breadth of a measure.
What is content validity?
200
Sampling technique in which participants choose which conditions they would like to be in.
What is self-selection?
200
A type of experimental manipulation that involves altering the description of the purpose and procedure of a study.
What is instructional manipulation?
300
Data collection involving indirect and observational techniques.
What are unobtrusive measures?
300
The extent that a measure can explain behaviors on another criterion measure.
What is predictive validity?
300
Selecting participants that are available at hand?
What is a convenience sample?
300
A type of experiment where participants respond to constructed situation that has been designed to reproduce or mimic a real-world situation.
What is an analogue experiment?
400
Social cues communicated in the laboratory that are not part of the experimental manipulation.
What are demand characteristics?
400
The extent of that measures of constructs that are theoretically related are actually related.
What is convergent validity?
400
Subjects that are unaware of their participation in a study until the study is completed.
What are nonvoluntary participants?
400
The degree to which an experiment has a real impact on participants.
What is experimental realism?
500
The extent to which a study's environment and operations resemble events in everyday, normal life.
What is mundane realism?
500
Validity that is often ignored in the undergraduate stats courses.
What is statistical conclusion validity.
500
Subjects who worry that the experimenter will evaluate and judge them based off their performance in the study.
What are apprehensive participants?
500
A popular analogue experiment in which two participants must blindly cooperate with one another to achieve the best possible scenario for each, or otherwise face undesirable consequences.