PSYC 304 FINAL: RESEARCH METHODS Athabasca University Questions With 100% Correct Answers.
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Authority - Answer-based on someone's else's language
logic - Answer-- based on reason
intuition - Answer-- a way of knowing spontaneous instinctive processes rather than on logic or
reasoning
- spontaneous perception or judgment not based on reasoned mental steps
Variable - Answer-- A factor ...
PSYC 304 FINAL RESEARCH METHODS
Athabasca University
Authority - Answer -based on someone's else's language
logic - Answer -- based on reason
intuition - Answer -- a way of knowing spontaneous instinctive processes rather than on logic or
reasoning
- spontaneous perception or judgment not based on reasoned mental steps
Variable - Answer -- A factor that can change in an experiment with different conditions
dependent variable - Answer -The measurable effect, outcome, or response in which the research is
interested.
Frequency - Answer -The number of times a behaviour is performed
rate - Answer -The number of times that a behaviour is performed relative to time
duration - Answer -length of time something lasts
Latency - Answer -- The amount of time b/w the instruction and when the behaviour is actually
performed
Topography - Answer -- The shape or style of the behaviour
Force - Answer -The intensity or strength of a behaviour
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locus - Answer -- Where the behaviour occurs in the environment
variable of interest - Answer -a variable for which its role in the cause and effect of an observed
relationship is not clear
subject variable - Answer -- Independent variables that the researcher does not manipulate
- Ex: age, sex, iQ
Confounded Variables - Answer -Two variables are _______ if the investigator cannot separately identify
their effects on the response variable.
quantitative variable - Answer -- ones that varies in amount
Categorical Variable (Qualitative) - Answer -ones that varies in kind
continuous variable - Answer -a quantitative variable that has an infinite number of possible values that
are not countable
discrete variable - Answer -Consists of separate, indivisible categories. No values can exist between two
neighboring categories.
real limits - Answer -the interval defined by the number plus or minus half the distance to the next
number
Measurement - Answer -- Process of assigning numbers to events or objects according to rules
Nominal scales - Answer -- Classifies objects or events into categories
- Simplest kind of scale b/c its rule for assigning numbers or other labels to objects or events
ordinal scale - Answer -- a scale of measurement in which the measurement categories form a rank order
along a continuum
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- One that ranks or events in order of their magnitude
Interval Scales - Answer -- measure in which the differences between numbers are meaningful; includes
both nominal and ordinal information
ratio scale - Answer -measurement that has a natural, or absolute zero and therefore allows the
comparison of absolute magnitudes of the numbers
permissible transformations - Answer -- ways that we can alter the assignment of numbers to individual
events without distorting the scale
parametric statistics - Answer -- those that make assumptions about the population from which the data
are drawn —namely, that the data are normally distributed and each group has the same variance
- include the usual Pearson correlation coefficient, the t test, and analysis of variance
nonparametric statistics - Answer -various tests that are based on rank order of the data or on the sign of
the differences between subjects
relatively infrequently used b/c they lack power compared with the corresponding parametric test
Reliability - Answer -- The property of consistency of a measurement that gives the same result on
different occasions
Validity - Answer -the extent to which a test measures or predicts what it is supposed to
construct validity - Answer -a test that the measurements actually measure the constructs they are
designed to measure, but no others
face validity - Answer -idea that a test should appear superficially to test what it is supposed to test
content validity - Answer -- notion that a test should sample the range of the behaviour that is
represented by theoretical concept being measured
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