Theory Flashcards
Theory
Explains why something occurs
Law
Describes what happens
Theory and law
Leads to repeated successful predictions
Independent variable
What’s changed or can be changed that makes impact on dependent
Dependent
Changes based on Independent
Mediating
Contributes to relationship between independent and dependent
Moderating
Influence independent variable
Confounding
Things we didn’t or can’t asses, could effect ib but don’t know how
Interval/ratio variable
Distances between categories are identical across the range
Ordinal
Variables who categories can be ranked ordered but distances between them are not equal
Categorical (nominal)
Categories can’t be ranked ordered
Dichotomous
Variables containing data that only have two categories
Numeric
Continuous or discrete
Categorical
Ordinal (dichotomous) or nominal
