Next Step Exam 1 Flashcards
What is a mediating variable?
One which explains the relationship between 2 other variables
What is the difference between incidence vs. prevalence?
Incidence: Number of new cases of a disease during a specific time interval
Prevalence: describes how common the disease is and how many people have the disease within a certain amount of time.
What is a risk ratio?
Compares the risk of a disease among one group with the risk among another group
What is the difference between a cross-sectional study and a case-control study?
Cross sectional: examine a group of individuals at one point in time
Case-control: compare info about individuals with a disease or condition against people without the disease or condition
What are confounding variables?
External variables that effect both the independent and dependent variables
What is social constructionism?
Social constructionism: asserts that people develop understandings of the world through interactions with other people and that the mediating force in this interaction is primarily language.
What is the difference between belief bias and confirmation bias?
Belief bias: tendency that people have to judge things based not upon sound logic, but upon already held beliefs
Confirmation bias: tendency that people have to focus on info that is in agreement with the beliefs they already have, rather than the info that is contrary to those beliefs.
What is reconstructive bias?
A type of bias related to memory, not accurately remembering
What is social desirability bais?
Related to how people respond to research questions
What is attrition bias?
Occurs when participants drop out of a long term study
What are the 3 core components of emotion?
1) Physio arousal
2) Expressive displays
3) Subjective experiences
What is the Schacter- Singer theory of emotion?
event –> physio response –> identify reason for response –> emotion
