SSR exam 1 Flashcards
justificiation
when we ask for a reason
argument
to attempt to persuade by giving good reasons
rhetoric
any verbal or written attempt to persuade someone to believe desire or do something that does not attempt to give good reasons for the belief desire or action, but attempts to motivate that belief desire or action solely thought the power of the words used
premises
the supporting claims, he ones intended to give us reasons for accepting the conlcusion
proposition
factual content expressed by a declarative sentence on a particular occasion
an argument
a set of propositions of which one is a conclusion and the remainder are premises, intended as sport for the conclusion
indexicals
the meaning of an indexical changes relative to its context of use or relative to the person to whom it refers
inference bar
the line between premises and conclusions, purpose is to distinguish steps in reasoning. the bar should be read as ‘therefore’
implicit conclusions
conclusions sometimes remain unexpressed. they are only implied or suggested by the actual text or speech content, not explicitely expressed by it.
premise indicators
there are certain words that usually but not always indicate the presence of premises
justificiation
we want the person to give us an argument for why the action is reasonable or acceptable
criterion validity
whether you can establish that an instrument measures what it claims to measure through comparison to objective criteria
concurrent validity
when data are recorded simulateously using the new instrument and existing criteria
predicitive validity
when data from the new instrument are used to predict observations at a later point in time
content validity
with self report measures it is assessed the degree to which individual items represent the construct being measured, and if it covers full range of the construct
test retest reliabilty
reliable instrument will produce similar scores at both points in time
unsystematic variation
small differences in performance created by unknown factors
systematic variation
differences in performance created by a. specific experimental manipulation
leptokurtic
a distribution with many scores in the tails and pointy top
platykurtic
a distribution with negative kurtosis is thin in the tails and tends to be flatter than normal
mode
score that occurs most frequently in the data set
median
middle score when scores are ranked in order of magnitude
quantiles
values that split a data set into equal portions.
percentiles
points that split the data into 100 equal parts