PSY 3213 Final Exam Review
3 characteristics of scientists Correct Answer: Skeptics, Empiricists, and trained
All scientific questions must be Correct Answer: answerable
3 characteristics of a good theory are Correct Answer: 1) supported by data
2)falsifiable (predict specific measurem...
Dependent variable Correct Answer: whats being measured
Independent Variable Correct Answer: Manipulated
operational definition Correct Answer: set of procedures used to measure a variable
frequencey claims Correct Answer: rate of a single variable, NEVER describes a relationship
association claims Correct Answer: 2 variables can be used to predict each other, covary, correlation,
related
casual claims Correct Answer: one variable causes change in another
valid, covariance, temporal precedence, alternative explanations
3rd variable probelm Correct Answer: something else has an effect on other 2 variables that have no
casual relationship
....Rule out with experimental method
Construct Validity Correct Answer: Measures what we think were measuring
Internal Validity Correct Answer: No confounding variables
External Validity Correct Answer: findings tell us something about the world beyond the experiment
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