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1
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What are methods of gaining knowledge about truth and reality?

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Epistemology

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2
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What are the four ways of establishing truth/reality?

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  1. Faith
  2. Common sense
  3. Logic
  4. Scientific Method
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3
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Faith is beliefs based on?

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Authority

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4
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What uses observable evidence, not the testimony of authorities?

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Science

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5
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What are beliefs based on experience and sensory observations?

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Common Sense

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6
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What are beliefs based on formal rules that lead to a conclusion that must be true if the premises are true?

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Logic

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7
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What is a set of empirical analytical and self-critical techniques for establishing facts?

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scientific method

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8
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What technique is based on collected data, measurements and observations?

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Empirical

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9
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What technique is described as complex topics that are broken down into smaller components?

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Analytical

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10
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The scientific method can be described as?

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Replicable
Generalizable
Parsimonious
Falsifiable
Dynamic/self correcting
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11
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What are the four types of research?

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Exploratory
Descriptive
Correlational
Explanatory

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12
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What type of research develops knowledge in a new area and gets background information to develop new theories for later testing?

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Exploratory

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13
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What type of research describes some behavior, situation or phenomenon?

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Descriptive

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14
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What type of research determines variables that are related to each other or some behavior, situation, or phenomenon?

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Correlational

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15
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Can you infer causation from correlational research?

A

NO

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16
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What type of research is used to explain phenomena or behaviors?

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Explanatory

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17
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What type of research is conducted to test, evaluate, or develop theories?

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Basic Research

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18
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What type of research is conducted to meet some practical need?

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Applied Research

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19
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What type of research tries to optimize the interaction of humans and technology?

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Human Factors Research

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20
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What type of research determines how well a program works and assesses needs?

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Evaluation Research

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21
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What are the 2 approaches to research?

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Ideographic

Nomothetic

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22
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What are underlying ststamatic ways that the world functions; the principles under which the universe operates?

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Laws

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23
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What are devleoped to explain a behavior or phenomenon and tentatively try to determine laws; tentative statements of what we think law are?

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Theories

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24
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What are broad models of how to view the world?

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Paradigms

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25
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What is an event that affects the likelihood of another occurring?

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Soft Determinism (A sometimes causes B)

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26
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What event always lead to another?

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Hard Determinism (A always causes B)

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27
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What type of reasoning goes from specific instances to general principles?

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Inductive

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28
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What type of reasoning goes from general principles to specific instances?

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Deductive

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29
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What type of reasoning is used to generate theories from observation?

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Inductive

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30
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What type of reasoning is used to generate research hypotheses from general theories?

31
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What are qualities or quantities that differ between people, groups, or things?

32
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What are qualities or quantities that do not differ?

33
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What is the term for reducing complex variables to simpler, measurable units?

A

Reductionism

34
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What is a clear statement of how a variable is defined in a study so others can understand how the variable was measured?

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Operational Definition

35
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What type of variable has an effect on another variable?

A

Independent Variable

36
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What is the type of variable that is affected by the independent variable?

A

Dependent Variable

37
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What variable has an effect on another variable?

38
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What type of IV are actively manipulated assigned or changed by researcher?

39
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What type of IV affect DV levels but are only measured not manipulated in a study?

40
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The dependent variable is measured to see if what?

A

The IV has an effect.

41
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What are the 3 major types of studies in psychology?

A

Descriptive
Correlational
Experimental

42
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What type of study summarizes some behavior, situation or phenomenon?

A

Descriptive

43
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What are the 3 major descriptive studies?

A

Case studies
Archival Research
Naturalistic Observation

44
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What type of study examines the relations between naturally occurring variables?

A

Correlational

45
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What type of study systematically evaluates the effect of the IV on the DV?

A

Experimental

46
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What type of experimental study has a MANIPULATED IV?

47
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What type of experimental study has a MEASURED IV?

48
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What is the first step in any study?

A

Literature reivew

49
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What is a literature review?

A

Analysis of relevant published infomation

50
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What is a small scale study that tests a procedure and materials to be used in a bigger study?

A

Pilot study

51
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What do scales of measurement do?

A

describe how a variable was measured

52
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What are the 4 scales of measurement?

A

Nominal
Ordinal
interval
ratio

53
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Nominal scale has no what?

A

Quantitative properties except IDENTITY*

54
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All nominal scales measure what?

A

Categorical or qualitative data with no meaning to the order.

55
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What are examples of nominal data?

A 
Team jersey numbers
channels on tv
ethnicity
phone numbers
sex
56
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Ordinal scale of measurement is what?

A

Quantitative but can be used for rank ordering

57
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In ordinal scale the distance between what is not the same?

A

Categories

58
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Ordinal data tells you what?

A

Identity and order but NOT magnitude

59
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Examples of ordinal data include?

A

Finsihing places of race

Rank top 10 foods

60
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What scale of measurement has the math properties of identity and order?

A

Interval scale of measurement

61
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Interval has what properties?

A

Identity, order, and magnitude

62
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In interval data the difference between what is meaningful?

63
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How are variables measured with interval data?

A

Continuous or quantitative

64
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Interval data lacks what property?

A

Has no absolute/true zero (negative is ok)

65
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Examples of interval data include?

A

Temperature

Intelligence

66
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In this course we assume that psychological measures or constructs are?

A

Interval/scale

67
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What scale of measurement has properties of identity, order, and magnitude and an absolute zero point(can’t be negative)?

68
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Ratio variables are classified as?

A

Continuous

69
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What are examples of ratio data?

A

Height/distance
Weight
Scores on midterm

70
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What are the 2 major classes of variables in psychology?

A

Qualitative

Quantitative

71
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Qualitiative variables represent what?

A

Groups or categories (all nominal variables)

72
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Qualitative variables are classified as

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Categorical/discrete

73
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Quantitative variables represent what?

A

properties that follow along a continuum.

74
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What types of variables are quantitative?

A

Ratio
Interval
Ordinal

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