Chapter 12 - Research & Statistics Flashcards
1
Q
Null hypothesis
A
Variables not related
2
Q
Alternative hypothesis
A
Two variables are related
3
Q
Ex post facto research
A
Retrospective research
4
Q
Ethnographic research
A
Observations or descriptions of naturally occurring events
5
Q
Meta analysis
A
Integration of data across multiple studies to reach a conclusions
6
Q
Maturation
A
Biological changes within participants
7
Q
Attrition
A
Loosing participants are experiment progresses
8
Q
Hawthrone effect
A
Study’s results are affected by the fact that the participants know they are in the study
9
Q
Reactive effects of predestined
A
May sensitives the dependent variable to participation which would increase effect of independent variable
10
Q
Nominal scale
A
Categories
11
Q
Ordinal scale
A
Numbers
12
Q
Interval scale
A
Ranking
13
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Ratio scale
A
Interval scale with numbers
