Chapter 2 Flashcards

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What is basic research

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Deals with testing fundamental mechanisms, producing conditions or events without undue concern for the practical utility

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2
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What is applied research

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Generates solutions to immediate problems irrespective of mechanistic details.

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3
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Intuition is what

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Developing implicit understanding of phenomena of interest in absence of formal training.

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4
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what is logic

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Knowledge generated through application of formal rules of reasoning to problem in question.

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5
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What is descriptive reseach

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Provides in-depth portrayals of phenomenon of interest, in general, or for specific participant groups.

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6
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What is predictive reseach

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Establishes directional relationships between phenomena of interest

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7
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What is theory

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Interconnected concepts that explain how and why phenomena work together.

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What is an extraneous variable?

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Variable other than IV that could influence the DV

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9
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what is a null hypothesis ?

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Indicates no relationship between the variables under study or no difference exists between the groups receiving or not receiving the independent variable.

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10
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What is a alternative hypothesis?

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Educated guess regarding the independent variable

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What does casual mean?

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Process of identifying agents that when manipulated bring about the desired changes in the DV’s of interest

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12
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What type of research requires ethical review?

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Any research involving human participants, any research using biophysical specimens or human remains

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What are the three issues are central to good ethical conduct

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Respecting participants, beneficence,, and justice

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What does respecting participants concern

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Anonymity and confidentiality of participant data.

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what does beneficence concern

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Maximizing potential benefits while minimizing possible harm to participants.

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16
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What does justice mean?

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Basically that the participants are the ones who derive benefits from the result of the study.

17
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What is a measurement

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Assigning numbers to variables

18
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What is nominal?

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Assigning numbers to variables representing measurement only as labels i.e #15

19
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What is ordinal?

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Assigning numbers to variables so that a variable can be rank ordered

20
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What is an interval?

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Assigning numbers to variables so that distances between numbers are equal

21
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What is a ratio?

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Assigning numbers to variables so that a true zero exists. Ex: number of training sessions attended

22
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What is psychometrics?

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Assessment of psychological variables using numbers

23
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What is reliability?

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concerns the CONSISTENCY or stability of scores derived.

24
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True score model estimates

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Reliability

25
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What is observed score

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Actual numerical value derived from test

26
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What is true score?

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Variable of interest plus some error of measurement

27
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Observed score =?

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True score+Measurement error

28
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what is validity ?

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Extent to which test scores serve intended function

29
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Five sources of validity?

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Content, Criterion, Predictive, Concurrent, and consequential

30
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What is internal validity?

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The study’s results are attributed to treatment rather than design flaw

31
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What is internal validity threat?

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Explanation for changes in dependent variable

32
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What is Quasi-Experimental Designs

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Does not randomly assign participants to differnt conditions

33
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What design is common in S.E.P

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Non-experimental design

34
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Some points on Basic interpretive qualitative study

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Seeks understanding phenomena, processes, or perspectives.
Interviews, observation, document examination.
Analyzes data to identify patterns and themes

35
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What is phenomenology concerned with

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Essence of lived experiences

36
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What is the grounded theory

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Develops theory inductively derived from data

37
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Case study is descriptions and analyses of what?Use what perspectives?

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Single unit, Disciplinary and methodological

38
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What is ethnograhy?

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Study of culture around group or team

39
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What is substantive theory ?

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Localized, dealing with particular real-world situations