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Research Methods

Subject : business-skills
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1. Procedure that ensures every person in a population has an equal chance of being chosen to participate






2. Testable and falsifiable prediction - often implied by a theory






3. A type of reliability - where different versions of same instrument are used and scores are compared






4. Measures whether a test looks like it tests what it is supposed to test as determined by a quick look or evaluation by a non expert






5. Effects of being born and raised in a particular time or situation where all other members of your group has similar experiences makes your group unique from others






6. Symbol used to represent the total number of subjects in a research study






7. Set of assumptions used to explain phenomena & offered for scientific study






8. Form of validity in which a psychological measure is able to predict some future behavior or is meaningfully related to some other measure






9. Association between increases in one variable and decreases in another






10. The probability level which forms basis for deciding if results are statistically significant (not due to chance).






11. Computed measure of how much scores vary around the mean score.






12. Tendency to believe - after learning an outcome - that one would have foreseen it.






13. Skewed distribution with many more scores on the higher end of the distribution






14. Statement that describes how to measure a particular variable or define a particular term specifically in a study






15. Extent to which a test yields consistent results - a measure is repeatable






16. Degree to which test is representative of total domain its supposed to cover.






17. Assigning participants to experimental and control conditions by chance - thus minimizing preexisting differences between those assigned to different groups.






18. Repeating of research study to determine if its finding extends to other participants and circumstances






19. Results of experiment are SIGNIFICANT - they are not likely caused by chance






20. Extent to which the findings from one group (or sample) can be generalized or applied to other groups (or population






21. Any selection method that results in subset of the population (sample) that is not representative - and/or not random






22. Rejecting null hypothesis when it is actually true - a false positive






23. Skewed distribution where data has many more scores toward the lower end of the distribution






24. Data exists in categories that are ordered but differences cannot be determined or they are meaningless. (Example: 1st - 2nd - 3rd)






25. Procedure for statistically combining results of many different research studies






26. Subset of a population in which every element in the population has an equal chance of being selected






27. Condition of experiment that exposes participants to treatment - that is - to one version of the IV






28. The tendency for people to behave differently when they know they are being studied






29. Difference between highest and lowest scores in a distribution.






30. In a normal distribution it tells you how far a number is above or below mean in terms of standard deviations.






31. Descriptive research technique in which one person or a small group is studied in depth in hope of revealing universal principles






32. Measuring device or procedure designed to measure psychology-related variables. A measurement that results in a score or result that is standardized






33. Perception of a correlation between variables where none exists.






34. Statistical measure of strength of association between two variables ranging from -1.0 to 1.0






35. Change in subject's behavior caused simply by awareness of being studied






36. Tendency to give socially approved answers to questions about oneself.






37. Assigning participants to experimental and control conditions by chance - thus minimizing preexisting differences between those assigned to the different groups






38. All cases in a group - from which samples may be drawn for a study






39. Not rejecting null hypothesis when in fact we should have rejected it - a false negative






40. Relationship between variables in which as one variable increases - the other also increases - OR as one decreases so does the other. Both variables move in the same direction.






41. Research method in which investigator manipulates one or more factors (IV) to observe effect on some behavior or mental process (DV)






42. Research in which the same people are re-studied and re-tested over a long period






43. Factors in an experiment that are unchanged for both the control group and the experimental group






44. Measure of the extent to which two factors vary together which can be positive or negative or non






45. Arithmetic average of a distribution -






46. Descriptive research that involves observing and recording behavior without trying to manipulate and control the situation.






47. Method by which participants are misinformed or misled about study's methods and purposes - must be told truth about this in debriefing






48. Statistical method for making simultaneous comparisons between two or more means






49. Variables other than IV that participants in - one group have that makes them different - from the other group. Two variables linked together in a way that makes it difficult to sort out their specific effects.






50. Differences between values can be found - but is NO absolute ZERO. Examples: temperature F - time