1.1 Statistics + Measurement

Question 1

appeal to authority

Answer 1

believing something is true because someone very important said/endorses it

Question 2

argument from antiquity

Answer 2

believing something is true because it has been known for a long time

Question 3

ad hominem

Answer 3

attacking the person rather than the position they maintain/view held

Question 4

replication

Answer 4

process of repeating research to determine the extent to which findings generalise across time and situations

Question 5

name of crisis affecting psyc atm

Answer 5

replication crisis

Question 6

construct

Answer 6

an idea or theory containing assumptions and conceptual relationships (e.g. intelligence)

Question 7

weasel words

Answer 7

vague and misleading terminology designed to avoid accountability

Question 8

conceptual definition

Answer 8

describing a construct in terms of what it is and is not

Question 9

reification

Answer 9

when a purely analytic or abstract concept is made into a noun e.g. luck, intelligence, personality

Question 10

falsifiability

Answer 10

the ability for a construct to be assessed, measured, and therefore disproven

Question 11

pragmatic fallacy

Answer 11

when conceptual reality is tied to efficacy –> something might ‘appear’ to work when it’s actually because of other reasons (psychotherapy talking)

Question 12

operational definition

Answer 12

explanation of how that construct might be measured; operationalising, finding a way in which the construct can be observed

Question 13

construct v operational definition exampled

Answer 13

motivation vs rate of button pressing, personality vs score on questionnaire