Conduction psychology research Flashcards

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Ambulatory assessment

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An overarching term to describe methodologies that assess the behavior, physiology, experience, and environments of humans in naturalistic settings

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Daily Diary method

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A methodology where participants complete a questionnaire about their thoughts, feelings, and behavior of the day at the end of the day.

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Day reconstruction method (DRM)

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A methodology where participants describe their experiences and behavior of a given day retrospectively upon a systematic reconstruction on the following day.

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Ecological momentary assessment

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An overarching term to describe methodologies that repeatedly sample participants’ real-world experiences, behavior, and physiology in real time.

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Ecological validity

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The degree to which a study finding has been obtained under conditions that are typical for what happens in everyday life.

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Electronically activated recorder, or EAR

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A methodology where participants wear a small, portable audio recorder that intermittently records snippets of ambient sounds around them.

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Experience-sampling method

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A methodology where participants report on their momentary thoughts, feelings, and behaviours at different points in time over the course of a day.

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External validity

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The degree to which a finding generalizes from the specific sample and context of a study to some larger population and broader settings.

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Full-cycle psychology

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A scientific approach whereby researchers start with an observational field study to identify an effect in the real world, follow up with laboratory experimentation to verify the effect and isolate the causal mechanisms, and return to field research to corroborate their experimental findings.

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Generalize

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Generalizing, in science, refers to the ability to arrive at broad conclusions based on a smaller sample of observations. For these conclusions to be true the sample should accurately represent the larger population from which it is drawn.

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Internal validity

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The degree to which a cause-effect relationship between two variables has been unambiguously established.

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Linguistic inquiry and word count

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A quantitative text analysis methodology that automatically extracts grammatical and psychological information from a text by counting word frequencies.

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Lived day analysis

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A methodology where a research team follows an individual around with a video camera to objectively document a person’s daily life as it is lived.

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White coat hypertension

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A phenomenon in which patients exhibit elevated blood pressure in the hospital or doctor’s office but not in their everyday lives.

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