Research Design, Statistics, and Measurments Flashcards
Who founded the first psych lab?
William Wundt
Who showed higher mental processes can be studied by experimental method?
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Oswald Kulpe
believed that whenever you thought of something, an image of that thing formed in your mind; hat is there could be no thought without mental image
First intelligence test
simon-binet
Who introduced mental testing to US
James McKeen Cattell
Who developed IQ
William Stern
Who revised Binet-Simon test for use in the US
1916, Lewis Terman
Hypothesis
tentative/testable explanation of the relationship between 2+ variables
Variables
a characteristic/property that varies in amount or kind, and can be measured.
Operational Definitions
State how researcher will measure the variables
Variable being studied
IV
Variable changes due to variation (measured)
DV
Correlations mean that the researcher does not
manipulate the IV
2 conditions of true experiment
random assignment
manipulates the IV
Correlational
IV not manipulated
Quasi-experiment
IV manipulated; subject not randomly assigned to groups
Sample
subset of population we’re ACTUALLY testing
Random Selection
each population member has equal chance of being selected
Stratified random sampling
assure each subgroup of population randomly sampled in proportion in size
Between-Subjects Design
Each subject is exposed to only one level of each independent variable.
Matched-subjects design
Between-subjects, but match on one important variable, like intelligence.
Within-Subjects design/repeated-measures design
all subjects in all conditions
Solve within subject problem of which group got which thing first
counterbalance
unintended IV
confounding variable
nonequivalent group design
control group is not necessarily similar to the experimental group since researcher doesn’t use random assignment
Experimenter bias
due to their expectations, experimenter might treat groups differently, avoid by double blind
Demand Characterisitics
Cues in research situation that suggest to subject what is expected
Solution? Deception
Hawthorne effect
tendency of people to behave differently if they know they are being controlled.
External validity
how generalizable results are
Descriptive stats
concerned with organizing, describing, quantifying, and summarizing collection of actual observations
Inferential stats
researchers generalize beyond actual observations
Frequency distribution: descriptive stats
a measure of how often each value occurs
Ex: 3x red. 2x blue
Central tendency: descriptive stats
Mode- most frequent score
mean- average score
median-middle score
bimodal
2 modes
Variability/dispersion: descriptive stats
Range- smallest number in distribution subtracted from the largest
Standard deviation- measure of typical distance of score from mean
variance- square of the standard deviation and describes how much each score varies from the mean
Standard deviations on normal distributions
0 –> 1/-1 are 34%
1/-1 –> 2/-2 are 14%
2/-2 –> other are 2%