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Threats to Validity
Moderators/Mediators
Types of Research Designs
Measures
Miscellaneous
100
When data is skewed towards the top end of the scale.
What is Ceiling Effect?
100
The variable that causes the change in the strength of relationship between two other variables.
What is a Moderator?
100
An experiment design where all participants see all levels of one of the independent variables.
What is a Within Subjects Design?
100
A variable whose variation does not depend on that of another.
What is an Independent Variable?
100
The father of psychoanalytic theory.
Who is Freud?
200
Simply being observed causes people to work faster.
What is the Hawthorne Effect?
200
The variable that causes the relationship between two other variables.
What is a Mediator?
200
An experiment where one IV is within subjects and the other IV is between subjects.
What is a Mixed Design Study?
200
A measurement scale that makes use of real numbers that reflect relative differences in magnitude.
What is Interval Measurement?
200
A theory of learning developed by Pavlov and his dogs.
What is Classical Conditioning?
300
Changes that happen within a person due to time passing, affecting the variable being measured.
What is Maturation?
300
The effect of "X" on "Z" is completely mediated by "Y".
What is Full Mediation?
300
A study following the same group of people over time in multiple assessments, allowing you to look at changes over time within individuals.
What is a Longitudinal Study?
300
People rate how much they endorse a statement on a scale.
What is the Likert Scale?
300
The lobe that processes visual information.
What is the Occipital Lobe?
400
The tendency for people who receive high or low scores on a particular measure to score closer to the mean on subsequent testing.
What is Regression to the Mean?
400
Factors influenced by the outcome variables.
What is Down Stream Effects?
400
A type of research study where the subjects are previous experiments instead of individuals.
What is Meta Analysis?
400
Measures of peoples' unconscious, automatic attitudes that we get without asking the subject directly.
What is an Implicit Measure?
400
The structure of the brain changes in response to experience.
What is Neuroplasticity?
500
Measuring your construct in several different ways to see if it correlates with other things it should correlate with.
What is Convergent Validity?
500
Factors that influence the Independent Variable (predictor variable).
What is Antecedent?
500
A famous psychology study observing a young girl, Genie Wiley, kept alone in her room for the first ten years of her life, is an example of this.
What is a Case Study?
500
A type of behavioral measure that is made in the absence of the subject.
What is an Unobtrusive Measure?
500
The top level of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs.
What is Self-Actualization?