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What is Statistical Conclusion Validity and relevance to psychology?

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  • The validity with which we can infer that the IV and DV covary
  • Inferential statistics allow us to establish this type of validity
  • Small sample size is a threat to statistical conclusion validity (it can keep you from finding a relationship between the IV and DV when one really exists)

RELEVANCE:
- establishes if researchers inference about co variation is shown to be correct (statistically significant)

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What is Construct Validity and relevance to psychology??

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  • degree of agreement between theoretical concepts and specific measuring device or procedure.

RELEVANCE:
- if what you are testing and the procedure you are using is accurate in the outcome/ results of the experiment.

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Participant reactivity to Experimental

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  • the way the participant perceives the study

Ex: participant can be more sensitive or receptive to treatment.

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Experimenter Effect

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  • Pygmalion effect/ the phenomenon where higher expectations lead to an increase in performance.
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Compensatory Rivalry

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  • when the control group responds negatively because they found out that they were put in the control group which can lead to competiveness against the treatment group.
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Internal validity

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  • Refers to rigor with which study was conducted.

Ex: how well it was designed and how well the study works.

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History

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  • event occurring during study but before posttest/outcome measurement

EX: HIV/AIDS prevention & Magic Johnson

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Differential History

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  • event occurring during study not experienced by both groups.

EX: only one group experiences the event occurring

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Maturation

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Growing out of it. People’s opinion change

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Instrumentation

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  • Changes in way the DV is measured during the course of study.

EX: Autism/Autism Spectrum Disorder

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Testing

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  • Pre-test affects post-test scores.

EX: studying between tests increase positive outcomes.

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Regression Effects

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  • Pseudo effects assumed to be due to the IV but really due to regression to mean

EX: selecting one extreme aspect you are trying to study

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Selection of Participants

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Randomly selection

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Attrition

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People drop out!!!

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Differential Attrition

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  • cluster sampling, more men than women drop out/ uneven amount.
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External Validity

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-generalizing findings to people, setting, treatments, outcomes, time outside of study. It goes from specific to general

RELEVANCE: the principle goal of psychological research

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Population

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  • generalize from sample to larger population

RELEVANCE: knowing if you can transfer your collected date from the sample to the entire population.

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Ecological

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  • generalize across settings.

RELEVANCE: seeing if you can transfer data to different settings.

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Temporal

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  • generalize across time/seasons.

RELEVANCE: Transferring the collected data throughout time and seasons to see the validity within.

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Treatment Variation

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  • generalize across variables in treatment
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Outcome

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  • generalize across related dependent variable.
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Weak Designs

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  • design with no pretest

RELEVANCE: no starting point in psychological research.

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One-group post-test only

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  • weak design because there is only one group so there’s nothing to compare to.
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One-group pretest-post-test

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  • one single group experiences treatment and post treatment assessment

(Con: it cannot effectively evaluate effectiveness of treatment/intervention without pretest)

RELEVANCE: It is sometimes a necessity in health research
Posttest only with nonequivalent groups

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Non-equivalent groups

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  • not the strongest design and both non-equivalent groups have no similarities/no connections.

Ex: stress induced test to social class experiment, it is a mistake because the lower class is always usually stressed.

(CON: no pretest and pretest will help in saying why these two groups are non-equivalent)

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Strong Experimental Designs

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  • Between participant designs
  • Within participant designs
  • Mixed designs
  • Pretest-posttest control group design
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Between participant designs

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comparing one or more experimental groups or comparing one or more experimental groups with the control group

(EX: compare students with classical vs. jazz background or classical, jazz, and white noise) (Pro: increases test performance)

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Within participant designs

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  • repeated measure design/ one or more participant going through multiple trials and posttest after each trial.

(EX: healthy community study)

(PRO: control error factor/minimal error factor)

(CON: run the risk of something making the groups perform differently, being exposed repeatedly for intervention, using subject as own control group)

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Mixed designs

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  • design format that includes both between-group design and within-participant design.

(EX: three neighborhoods: upper, middle, and lower and 16 stores)

(CON: everyone can have a different interpretation about the amount for each social class) (the between group would be the income and the within design would be the time/ Phase I: 2013-2014/ Phase II: 2014-2015

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Pretest-posttest control group design

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  • Factorial designs
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Main Effects

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  • influence of 1 independent variable on dependent variable
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Interaction effects

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  • is there something that is changing the effect of the independent variable
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Row means

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  • means from level of independent variable
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Cell Means

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  • average of people in cells
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Two-way interactions

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  • where the two lines of the graph intersect
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Within subject’s factorial with independent variables

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  • All subjects get all conditions
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IRB: Institutional Review Board

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  • the committee at your university that reviews research proposals in order to ensure adequate protection for the people that will be participating in the study.

RELEVANCE: ensuring that every research study conducted is ethical.

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Selecting samples

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  • something that justifies who you are choosing and why
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Informed Consent

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  • ensuring the research participant is aware of all potential risk and cost involved in a treatment or procedure.
  • Scheduling research participants
  • Determining sample size
  • Design and selection of instruments
  • Debriefing
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Threats to Construct Validity

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  • Participants reactivity to the experimental situation
  • Research participants’ motives and tendencies that affect their perceptions of the situation and their responses on the dependent variable
  • Influenced by the demand characteristics
  • any of the cues available in an experiment, such as instructions, rumors, or setting characteristics that influence the responses of participants
  • primary motive— positive self-presentation (participants frequently want to respond in such a way as to present themselves in the best way possible; may try to guess what the experimenter “wants” and responds in that way)
  • Experimenter effects
  • actions and characteristics of researchers that influence the responses of participants
  • can be intentional and unintentional
  • Experimenter’s motive of supporting the study hypothesis can lead to bias
  • Ways experimenter may bias the study:
  • experimenter attributes
  • biasing experimenter effects attribute to the physical and psychological characteristics of the researcher
  • 3 categories
  • e.g., experimenter’s age, gender, race, religion
  • e.g., experimenter’s anxiety level, need for social approval, hostility
  • e.g., prior contact between experimenter and participant, is the experimenter naive or experienced
  • experimenter expectancies
  • biasing experimenter effects attributable to the researcher’s expectations about the outcome of the experiment
  • e.g., experimenter acts differently towards experimental vs. control group to influence study to support their hypothesis
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Threats to Internal Validity

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  • History
  • Differential History
  • Maturation
  • Instrumentation
  • Testing
  • Regression Artifact
  • Attrition
  • Differential Attrition
  • Selection
  • Additive and interactive effects
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Quasi Experimental Design

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  • Research procedure in which the scientist must select participants for different conditions from preexisting groups. Different from true experiment because you don’t have random assignment. You still have manipulation
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Problems with Quasi Experiment

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  • preexisting differences b/w groups (You can pretest differences on DV and find out if they do differ significantly) IV and group membership (often a subject variable) confounded when participants assigned to conditions based on group membership

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