CHAPTER 6: Formulating the Hypothesis

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refers to the thesis, or main idea, of an experiment or study consisting of a statement that predicts the relationship between at least two variables.

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Hypothesis

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a statement of predictions of how events, traits, or behaviors might be related, but not a statement about cause and effect (relationship).

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Non-Experimental Hypothesis

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it is a statement that explains/predicts the “effect” of specific antecedent conditions on a measured behavior.

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Experimental Hypothesis

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a statement that is always true.

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Analytic Statement

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a statement that can be either true or false, a condition necessary to form an experimental hypothesis.

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Synthetic Statement

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a statement that is always false - opposed each other. Need not to conduct experiments to test.

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Contradictory Statement

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a statement that can be tested because the means exist for manipulating antecedent conditions and for measuring the resulting behavior.

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Testable Statement

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a statement that is worded so that it is falsifiable, or disprovable, by experimental result/sresearch findings.

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Falsified Statement

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a statement that is simply and des not require many supporting assumptions.

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Parsimonious Statement

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a statement that leads to new studies.

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Fruitful Statement

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the process of reasoning from specific cases to more general principles to form a hypothesis.

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Inductive Model

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more likely to be false

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A posterior

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process of generalization.

• we devise general principles and theories used to organize, explain and predict behavior until more satisfactory principles are found.

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Induction/ Inductive reasoning

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the process of reasoning from general principles to specific instances, most useful for testing the principles of theory.

• rigorously test the implications of these theories.

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Deductive Model

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is the knack of finding things that are not being sought.

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Serendipity

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a periodical that publishes individual research reports.

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Psychological Journals

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a statistical reviewing procedure that uses data from many similar studies to summarize and quantify research findings about individual topics.

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Meta-Analysis

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it is not affected by anything else that happens in the experiment.

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Independent Variable (IV)

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a particular behavior we expect to change because of experimental intervention.

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Dependent Variable (DV)

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manipulating thru by giving subjects varying instruction leading them to believe that either they would be exposed and not to painful shock.

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Anxiety

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describes the operations involved in manipulating or measuring the variables in an experiment.

• it specifies the precise meaning of a variable within an experiment.

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Operational Definition

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it defines exactly what was done to create the various treatment conditions of the experiment.

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Experimental Operational Definition

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explain unseen processes postulated to explain observable behavior.

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Hypothetical Constructs

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it is equally important when we are working with variables that can be observed more directly.

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Non construct Variables

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it is important that we know hoe to defined scale of measurement in setting up experiments and formulating operational definitions.

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Scales of Measurements

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different observers take measurement of the same responses.

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Interrater Reliability

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comparing scores of people who have been measured twice with the same instrument.

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Test - Retest Reliability

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is the extent to which different parts of the questionnaire or other instruments designed to assess the same variable attain consistent result.

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Inter - Item Reliability

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often use multiple choice to check if they reliably measures the same variable.

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Internal Consistency

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often split the test into halves at random and compute the coefficient reliability and correlate items measuring on the same variable on two halves.

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Split Half Reliability

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the most widely used method for evaluating inter item reliability, considers the correlation of each test item with every other item.

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Chronbach’s Alpha

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it is the tests whose items are scored as right/wrong, or according to some other all-or-none system.

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Coefficient Alpha/ Kuder Richardson

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least likely to be a problem with variables that can be manipulated and measured fairly directly, it is the least stringent type of validity does not provide any real evidence.

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Face Validity

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depends on whether we are taking a fair simple of the quality we intend to measures.

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Content Validity

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is the predictive extend to which a scale predicts scores on some criterion measures.

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Predictive Validity

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compares scores on the measuring instrument with an outside criterion.

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Concurrent Validity

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deals with the transition from theory to research application.

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Construct Validity

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the test effectiveness in predicting behavior against a standard.

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Criterion Related Validity

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it is the certainty that the changes in behavior observed across treatment conditions in the experiment were actually caused by the independent variable.

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Internal Validity

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it is an outside event or occurrence that can produce effects on the dependent variable.

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History Threat

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produced by internal (psychological/physical) changes in subject as a function of the passage of time.

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Maturation Threat

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produced by a previous administration of the same test or other measures.

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Testing Threat

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produced by changes in the measuring instruments itself

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Instrumentation Threat

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occur when the subjects are assigned to conditions on the basis of extreme scores on the test.

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Statistical Regression Threat

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occur when the researcher does not assign subjects randomly to the different conditions of an experiments.

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Selection Threat

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produced by differences in dropout rates across the conditions of the experiments.

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Subject Mortality Threat

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family of threats, produced when a selection threat combines with one or more of the other threats to interval validity.

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Selecting Interaction Threat

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pretest might increase or decrease the respondent’s sensitivity or responsiveness to the experimental variable.

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Interaction Effect of Testing

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interaction effect to the experimental variable; subjects selected are not susceptible to the effect of the experimental variable, the result will not be realizable to the larger group.

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Selection Biases of Sampling

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exact duplication of an investigation, but with a different sample selected from a popultaion.

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Literal

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duplication of investigation, using the same problem and methodology with some alteration in the procedures, measurement and analysis.

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General Application

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duplication of the investigation using the same problem but utilizing an entirely different methodology.

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Triangulation

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likely to occur whenever multiple treatments are applied to the same respondents, the effects to prior treatments are not erasable.

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Multiple-Treatment Interference