Chapters 5, 6, 7, And 8

Question 1

Target population:

Answer 1

What entire group you want to look at

Question 2

Accessible population:

Answer 2

The population or portion of the target population you can actually look at

Question 3

Law of large numbers

Answer 3

More data/participants means more accurate measurements

Question 4

Systematic sampling

Answer 4

Calculated way of randomly picking participants

Question 5

Convenience sampling

Answer 5

Whoever happens to be there/available

Question 6

What are the four types of research strategies

Answer 6

Descriptive
Relationship
Correlational
Nonexperimental

Question 7

Descriptive research:

Answer 7

Assessing the state of individual variables

Question 8

Relationship research

Answer 8

Does one variable affect another?

Question 9

Correlational research:

Answer 9

To see how two different variables affect the same participant

Question 10

Nonexperimental research:

Answer 10

Examine two groups, pick out a variable, and compare them without manipulation

Question 11

External validity

Answer 11

What was studied happen in the outside world?

Question 12

Internal validity

Answer 12

Did we even study the thing right?

Question 13

Extrenious variable

Answer 13

Any variable that you aren’t measuring but affects the study

Question 14

What are the four elements of a research study?

Answer 14

Manipulation
Measurement
Comparison
Control

Question 15

Third variable problem

Answer 15

When a third variable screws up the numbers by affecting everything

Question 16

Directionality problem

Answer 16

When you are unsure which variable is affecting the other

Question 17

Confounding variable

Answer 17

Variable that is changed along with the independent variable as not not affect the dependent variable

Question 18

3 ways to control extrenuous variables

Answer 18

Holding variables constant
Matching values across treatment conditions
Randomization

Question 19

Mundane realism

Answer 19

how realistic the simulation models real life

Question 20

Experimental realism

Answer 20

how realistic the simulation feels to the participant

Question 21

Between subjects design:

Answer 21

Two different groups get two different treatments

Question 22

Within subjects design:

Answer 22

One group gets two different treatments

Question 23

Confounding variables in between subjects designs (2)

Answer 23

Individual differences

Environmental variables

Question 24

Successive measurements

Answer 24

Test/retest reliability

Question 25

Simultaneous measurements

Answer 25

When two people rating it are in agreement

Question 26

Internal consistency

Answer 26

When your tools measure the thing the same way

Chrome box alpha

Question 27

Latin square conditions

Answer 27

Sequences = treatments
Treatments are equally distributed
Each treatment follows and precedes all the others