research Flashcards
Kappa coefficient
Inter rater reliability
Treatment design least influenced by history
Abab
Behavior contrast
Skinner
Standard error of measurement
0 to SDx
Validity coefficient
-1 to +1
Range of standard error
0 to SDY standard deviation of the criterion
Incremental validity
Include the variables base rate . Selection ratio. Criterion validity
T score mean
Is 50 with a standard deviation of ten
Z score of
+1 means that it is 1 SD above the mean.. Equivalent to t score of 60. And a percentile rank of. 84
Idiographic
Single subject research
Nomothetic
Group approaches research
Retest of an extreme high score
Will generally go down
Hawthorne effect
s a type of reactivity in which individuals improve an aspect of their behavior in response to their awareness of being observed.
Rosenthal effect
the phenomenon whereby the greater the expectation placed upon people, the better they perform
Zeigargez effect
the psychological tendency to remember an uncompleted task rather than a completed one