This is the consistency or stability of a measure.
What is reliability?
100
This study, on social obedience, began to raise questions on ethics in psychological research.
What is Milgram's obedience study?
100
When increases in one variable relate to increases in another, we have this.
What is a positive linear relationship?
100
This is the idea that knowledge is based on observation.
What is empiricism?
200
Construct validity investigates the adequacy of this.
What is an operational definition?
200
These to aspects make up the observed score.
What is true score and error?
200
This informs participants of all the information they would need make a decision on whether or not the want to participate in the study.
What is the Informed Consent?
200
A study where there is no manipulation of any of the variables is an example of this.
What is non-experimental (correlational)?
200
News media, Books, Government officials, Religious figures, and Political pundits are all examples this source of information which does not rely on empiricism.
What is authority?
300
This type of validity is concerned with the independent variables influence on the dependent variable.
What is internal validity?
300
This reliability is tested when results of a measure given at two separate times are compared.
What is test retest reliability?
300
Depending on the research done, one may submit their proposal for no review, expedited review, or full review to this.
What is the institutional review board (IRB)?
300
This assures (to the best of our ability) that any differences between participants will be evenly distributed between experimental groups
What is random assignment?
300
This common practice of requiring one's research to evaluated by other experts in the field increases the quality of research in psychology.
What is peer review?
400
Within content validity, these two validities have to do with similar measures of a variable being correlated, and measures of different variables not being correlated.
What is convergent and discriminant (divergent) validity?
400
This reliability includes all possible split halves.
What is Cronbach’s alpha?
400
Honest experiments, role playing, and simulations are all alternatives to this sometimes necessary aspect of experiments.
What is deception?
400
These are the three requirements for causation one must satisfy to say that changes in one variable led to changes in another.
What are covariation, temporal order, control of third variables?
400
Studies and findings in this category typically have non testable hypothesis, questionable methods, and claims that ignore conflicting evidence.
What is psudoscience?
500
Within construct validity, these two validities have to do with the content of measure reflecting the meaning of the construct being measured.
What is face and content validity?
500
A measure can be this, but not this, respectively.
What is reliable and valid?
500
This term, referring to research maximizing benefits while minimizing costs to participants, is one of the three principles put forth by the Belmont Report.
What is beneficence?
500
In an experiment where the investigator alters the amount of sleep participants get each night to see if it influences scores on an I.Q. test, these are the IV and DV, respectively.
What is amount of sleep and scores on an I.Q. test?
500
These two, plus determining the cause of behavior and explaining behavior are the goals of behavioral science.