PSYC 201 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Statistical Conclusion Validity, Construct Validity, Observer-Expectancy Effect
14 Jan 2019
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The basic idea of validity is that conclusions based on research (are) Select one: support the researchers hypothesis(es), free of experimenter bias, statistically reliable, correspond to the actual conditions of the world. An experiment in which the independent variable really caused the change in the dependent variable is said to be high in _________ validity. Select one: they both vary in the study, one varies and one does not, none of these are true, their separate effects cannot be tested. The threat of confounding is particularly serious in research using. Select one: randomization, subject variables, assignment of subjects to conditions, true experiments. If you wanted to make sure that ngernail biting was a good way to classify your participants regarding their anxiety level by also testing them with the taylor manifest anxiety scale, you would have used a( n ) Select one: validity veri cation, manipulation check, generalization evaluation, extraneous variable.
