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It is the antecedent condition or treatment manipulated by the experimenter

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Independent Variable

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It is the indicator of change in behaviour

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Dependent Variable

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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 Definitions

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It specifies the procedures used to measure the impact of independent Variable

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Measured Operational Definitions

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The degree to which scores on the measuring instrument correlate with another known standard for measuring the variable being tions in the experiment were actually caused by studied

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Concurrent Validity

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An error that occurs when the value Interrater reliability The degree of agreement of an extraneous variable changes systematically along with the independent variable in an experi- ment; an alternative explanation for the findings that threatens internal validity

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Confounding

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The degree to which an operational definition accurately represents the construct it is intended to manipulate or measure.

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Construct validity

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measure reflects the content of what is being measured.

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Content Validity

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A variable other than an independent or dependent variable; a variable that is not the focus of an experiment but can produce effects on the dependent variable if not controlled

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Extraneous Variable

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10
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The degree to which manipulation technique is evident

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Face validity

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A threat to internal validity in which an outside event or occurrence might have produced effects on the dependent variable

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History Threat

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Concepts used to explain
unseen processes, such as hunger, intelligence, or learning; postulated to explain observable behavior.

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Hypothetical Construct

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A threat to internal validity produced by changes in the measuring instrument itself

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Instrumentation threat

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The degree to which different items measuring the same variable attain consis tent results.

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Interitem Reliability

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The certainty that the changes in behavior observed across treatment condition in the experiment were actually caused by the independent variable

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Internal validity

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16
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The degree of agreement among different observers

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Interrater reliability

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An assessment to determine whether the independent variable was
manipulated successfully

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Manipulation check

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Physical and psychological changes in subjects

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Maturation threat

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A family of threats to produced by changes in the measuring instrument internal validity produced when a selection threat combines with one or more of the other threats to internal validity

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Selection interaction