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PSY 302 Midterm -1 Questions And Answers Latest Update
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- PSY 302
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PSY 302 Midterm -1 Questions And Answers Latest Update
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PSY 302 Midterm #1 Questions And Answers
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Statistics ANS✔✔ Provides us with ways to organize and collect data so it
can be more easily comprehended and draws conclusions from a small set
of data about a large group of people
Research Methods ANS✔✔ How data is collected
Correlational Design ANS✔✔ Used to study the relationship between two
measured variables
Confounds ANS✔✔ Factors that undermine the ability to draw causal
inferences from an experiment
Predictor variable ANS✔✔ variable that comes first chronologically and
believed to be driving changes in the other
(x axis)
outcome (criterion) variable ANS✔✔ theoretically changes as a result of
change in the predictor variable
(y axis)
Experimental design ANS✔✔ Used to test the causal effect of one variable
on another variable
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independent variable ANS✔✔ The experimental factor that is manipulated;
the variable whose effect is being studied.
dependent variable ANS✔✔ The measurable effect, outcome, or response in
which the research is interested.
random assignment ANS✔✔ only difference between two groups is the
difference in independent variable and confounds can be equally dispersed
among participants
Quasi-Experimental Design ANS✔✔ Participants are assigned to a group
based on their level on an already existing characteristic then scores are
measured; can't make a causal claim because no random assignment
Grouping variable ANS✔✔ variables that define which group a participant
belongs to
Quasi-experiment D.V. ANS✔✔ Variable that theoretically changes as a
result of the change in the quasi I.V.
Criteria for causal claims ANS✔✔ Association
Temporal Precedence
No other alternative explanations
Discrete variable ANS✔✔ variable that has specific values and that cannot
have values between these specific values
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