Confounds Samenvattingen, Aantekeningen en Examens

Psych 001 Midterm 1 UPenn Exam Questions and Answers 100% Pass Components of a good Theory - Correct Answer ️️ -falsifiable (can be proven wrong), testable (range of hypotheses) - high level it's based in empirical evidence Hypothesis - Correct Answer ️️ -specific, testable prediction narrower than the theory it is based on Operational Definition - Correct Answer ️️ -a definition that qualifies (describes) and quantifies (measures) a variable so the variable can be understood...

Sage Exam 3 Questions with All Correct Answers In addition to the use of manipulation, true experiments must also make use of ______. - ANSWER random assignment In the early days of psychological research, researchers tried to ensure that experimental and control groups were identical to one another by using ______. - ANSWER matching What advantage(s) does random assignment have over matching? - ANSWER It equates experimental groups on almost any imaginable vari...

BCBA Exam1 Practice Study Guide Questions ’s a correlation - a systematic covariation between two events Functional Relation - when data show that specifically manipulating the IV will produce a reliable change in the DV (and it is unlikely due to confounds) Determinism - The assumption that the universe is a lawful and orderly place in which phenomena occur in relation to other events and not in a willy-nilly, accidental fashion. Empiricism - the belief that accurate knowledge can be...

PSYC 2301: Exam 1 Review Questions And Answers (Verified And Updated) Kinds of Information - answerBelief vs Knowledge: - Belief -- propositions unsupported by facts - Knowledge -- propositions supported by facts Opinion vs fact: - Opinion -- inherently involves interpretation - Facts -- involves an objective, real observation Sources of Information: Intuition - answerIntuition is a source of belief, not information - Sometimes involves a hard-to-track-down source of a feeling - Someti...

A between-subjects design - correct answer-must deal with the problem of equivalent groups A within subjects design - correct answer-is also known as a repeated-measures design **A between subjects design - correct answer-**includes at least two different groups **A within subjects design - correct answer-**must deal with the problem of order effects ***In between subject designs - correct answer-***blocked random assignment can be used as a way for forming equivalent groups All o...

PMH-C Medications Study Guide Exam. There are two patients - CORRECT ANSWER Treatment can benefit both mom and baby No treatment poses risk to both mom and baby "Exposure always occurs, be it to treatment or illness" Prevalence - CORRECT ANSWER 13% of pg women were prescribed antidepressants 50% of pregnancies are unplanned - early exposure has often occurred PMAD tx guidelines (APA & ACOG) - CORRECT ANSWER Mild - moderate: - psychotherapy first line - continue meds if needed ...

PSYC 3604 MIDTERM #1 STUDY NOTES CHAPTER 2 - CURRENT PARADIGMS & INTEGRATIVE APPROACHES WHAT IS A PARADIGM? • Paradigm: a set of basic assumptions, a general perspective, that defines how to: o Study a subject o Gather and interpret data o Think about a particular subject PARADIGMS IN ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY • Biological • Cognitive-behavioural • Psychoanalytic • Humanistic-existential • Integrative BIOLOGICAL PARADIGM • Biological paradigm: says that mental disorders ar...

CTIP FINALbivariate correlations - correct answer associations that involve exactly two variables t test - correct answer a statistic to test the difference between two group averages Interrogating association claims - correct answer Construct validity How well was each variable measured? Statistical validity How well do the data support the conclusion? Internal validity Can we make a causal inference from association? External validity To whom can the association be generalized? ...

There are two lines at the post office. You assume that people are mailing packages are in the first line and and that people mailing envelopes are in the second line. Your alternative hypothesis is that older people are in the first line and the younger people are in the second line. The next person who walks into the post office is a young person with a package. She stand in the first line what just happened? - Answer-Strong inference Generalization can occur across which of the following...

Epistemology - study of knowledge Illusion of Transparency - the tendency of individuals to believe that how they feel is much more apparent to others than is really the case External Validity - extent to which we can generalize findings to real-world settings Replication - repeating the essence of a research study, usually with different participants in different situations, to see whether the basic finding extends to other participants and circumstances Confounds - comparing groups that ...