MIDTERM

Question 1

Rule approach (to belief)

Answer 1

try to establish laws or rules that cover a variety of different observations

Advantage: can save time and effort
Disadvantage: if followed blindly, can also threaten advancement of understanding

Question 1

Structuralism

Answer 1

Wundt (1879): method of understanding complex mental events by breaking them down into components

Question 2

Authority approach (to belief)

Answer 2

Seeking knowledge from sources thought to be reliable and valid

Question 3

Analogy approach (to belief)

Answer 3

analogy between some new event and a more familiar understandable event

Question 4

Empirical approach (to belief)

Answer 4

testing ideas against actual events; also called the experimental approach

Question 5

Quasi experiments

Question 6

Main effects

Answer 6

one to one relationship between IV and DV, regardless of other IVs

there is a main effect for each independent variable

Question 7

Interactions

Answer 7

effect of one IV on the DV, accounting for other IVs

Question 8

2 x 2 matrix

Question 9

Z-score

Question 10

Cross-lagged panel correlation

Question 11

Mixed design

Answer 11

One IV is between subjects, and one IV is within subjects. Each participant receives each level level of the within subjects IV, and one of two between subjects IVs

Question 12

Factorial design

Answer 12

each level of one factor is combined with every level of the other variable

Question 13

Measures of CT

Question 14

Measures of variability

Answer 14

how scores differ from one another
2 major roles of variability:
- inferential stats: given observed variability, you create parameters of inference
- descriptive stats: observed variability is interesting

Question 16

Class interval

Answer 16

clustered group of data where range = interval width.