Exam 1 - Section 1 (9/8) Flashcards

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Psychological triad - how people _________, _________, and _________

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think, feel and behave

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Theoretical view = _________

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paradigm

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Definition of Personality:

An individual’s unique and relatively consistent patterns of _________, _________, and _________

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thinking, feeling, and behaving

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_________ :

An individual’s unique and relatively consistent patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving

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Definition of Personality

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The Goals of Personality Psychology:

Explain the _________ in his or her daily _________

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  • whole person

- environment

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Basic Approaches to Personality:

_________ approach: how people differ
psychologically

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Trait

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Basic Approaches to Personality:

_________ approach: understand the mind in terms of the body (physiological responses)

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Biological

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Basic Approaches to Personality:

_________ approach: primary concern is with the unconscious mind and internal mental conflict

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Psychoanalytic

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Basic Approaches to Personality:

_________ approach: focus on people’s conscious experience of the world

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Phenomenological

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Basic Approaches to Personality:

—Phenomenological approach:
_________: how conscious awareness produces uniquely human aFributes; understand meaning and basis of happiness

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Humanistic

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Basic Approaches to Personality:

—Phenomenological approach:
_________: how the experience of reality varies across cultures

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Cross-cultural

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Basic Approaches to Personality:

_________ approach-

  • Humanistic
  • Cross-cultural
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Phenomenological

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Basic Approaches to Personality:

—Phenomenological approach:
_________: The person as a whole, what you think, how concious you are regarding yourself

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Humanistic

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Basic Approaches to Personality:

_________ approach:
how behavior changes as a result of rewards, punishments, and other life experiences

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Learning and cognitive

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Basic Approaches to Personality:

–Learning and cognitive:
_________ : learning through observa,on and self-evaluation

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Social learning

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Basic Approaches to Personality:

–Learning and cognitive:
_________ : focuses on cognitive processes including perception, memory, and thought

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Cognitive personality

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Basic Approaches to Personality:

–Learning and cognitive:
_________ : focuses on overt behavior

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Classic behaviorism

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Advantages and Disadvantages of Personality Psychology

• Goal is to account for the _________ person and _________ concerns
– Advantage: inclusive, interesting, and important
– Disadvantage: overinclusiveness or unfocused research

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  • whole

- real-life

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Advantages and Disadvantages of Personality Psychology

• Goal is to account for the whole person and real-life concerns
– Advantage: ________ , interesting, and _________
– Disadvantage: overinclusiveness or unfocused research

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  • inclusive

- important

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Advantages and Disadvantages of Personality Psychology

• Goal is to account for the whole person and real-life concerns
– Advantage: inclusive, interesting, and important
– Disadvantage: _________ or unfocused _________

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  • overinclusiveness

- research

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Advantages and Disadvantages of Personality Psychology:

_________ approaches
– Advantage: good at addressing certain topics
– Disadvantage: poor at addressing other topics or ignores them

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Basic

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Advantages and Disadvantages of Personality Psychology:

Basic approaches
– Advantage: good at addressing _________ topics
– Disadvantage: poor at addressing other topics or _________ them

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  • certain

- ignores

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• Other areas of psychology treat all people as if they were the _________
• Personality psychologists emphasize _________ differences
– Negative: pigeonholing
– Positive: leads to sensitivity and respect for individual differences

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  • same

- individual

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• Other areas of psychology treat all people as if they were the same
• Personality psychologists emphasize individual differences
– Negative: _________
– Positive: leads to _________ and respect for _________ differences

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  • pigeonholing
  • sensitivity
  • individual
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_________ :

There are no perfect indicators of per- sonality; there are only clues, and clues are always ambiguous

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Funder’s Second Law

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Funder’s Second Law:

There are no perfect indicators of _________; there are only clues, and clues are always _________

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  • personality

- ambiguous

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Funder’s Second Law:

Psychologist’s job: put together the _________

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clues

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_________ :

Something beats nothing, two times out of three

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Funder’s Third Law

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_________ : Self-Judgments or Self-Reports

  • Usually _________ or surveys
  • Most frequent data source
  • High face validity (Measures what it appears to measure)
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  • S Data

- questionnaires

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S Data: Self-Judgments or Self-Reports

  • Usually questionnaires or surveys
  • Most _________ data source
  • High _________ (Measures what it appears to measure)
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  • frequent

- face validity

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Advantages of S Data:

• Based on a _________ amount of information
– You are always with yourself
– People are usually their own best _________
• Access to thoughts, feelings, and inten,ons • Definitional truth
• Causal force
– Efficacy expectations
– Self-verification
• Simple and easy data

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  • large

- expert

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Advantages of S Data:

• Based on a large amount of information
• Access to _________, feelings, and _________
• Definitional _________
• Causal force
– Efficacy expectations
– Self-verification
• Simple and easy data

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  • thoughts
  • intentions
  • truth
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Advantages of S Data:

• Based on a large amount of information
• Access to thoughts, feelings, and intentions
• Definitional truth
• _________ force
– Efficacy expectations
– Self-verification
• Simple and easy _________

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  • Causal

- data

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Advantages of S Data:

• Based on a large amount of information
• Access to thoughts, feelings, and intentions
• Definitional truth
• Causal force
– _________ expectations (produces intended results)
– _____-verification
• Simple and easy data

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  • Efficacy

- Self

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_________ of S Data:

•  Maybe people won’t tell you
•  Maybe people can’t tell you 
  – Fish-and-water effect 
  – Active distortion of memory 
  – Lack of self-insight
•  Too simple and too easy
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Disadvantages

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Disadvantages of S Data:

•  Maybe people \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ tell you
•  Maybe people \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ tell you 
  – Fish-and-water effect 
  – Active distortion of memory 
  – Lack of self-insight
•  Too \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ and too easy
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  • won’t
  • can’t
  • simple
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Disadvantages of S Data:

•  Maybe people won’t tell you
•  Maybe people can’t tell you 
  – Fish-and-water effect 
  – Active \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ of memory 
  – Lack of \_\_\_\_\_-insight
•  Too simple and too easy
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  • distortion

- self

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_________ Data:

Asking someone who knows them

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Informant Report (I)

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Informant Report (I) Data:

•  Acquaintances, \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_, clinical psychologists, and so on
•  No training or \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ needed
•  Based on observing people in whatever
context they know them from
•  Used \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ in daily life
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  • coworkers
  • expertise
  • frequently
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Informant Report (____) Data

A

I

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_________ of I Data :

• Based on a large amount of information
• Based on observation of behavior in the real world
• Based on common sense about what behaviors mean
• Definitional truth
• Causal force
– Reputation affects opportunities and expectancies
– Expectancy effects; also called behavioral confirmation

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Advantages

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Advantages of I Data:

• Based on a large amount of information
• Based on _________ of behavior in the real world
• Based on _________ sense about what behaviors mean
• Definitional _________
• Causal force
– Reputation affects opportunities and expectancies
– Expectancy effects; also called behavioral confirmation

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  • observation
  • common
  • truth
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Advantages of I Data:

• _________
– Reputation affects opportunities and expectancies
– Expectancy effects; also called behavioral confirmation

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Causal force

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Advantages of I Data:

• Causal force
– Reputation affects _________ and expectancies
– _________ effects; also called behavioral confirmation

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  • opportunities

- Expectancy

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_________ of I Data:

  • Limited behavioral information
  • Lack of access to private experience
  • Error: more likely to remember behaviors that are extreme, unusual, or emotionally arousing
  • Bias: due to personal issues or prejudices
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Disadvantages

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Disadvantages of I Data:

  • Limited behavioral information
  • Lack of access to _________ experience
  • _________ : more likely to remember behaviors that are extreme, unusual, or emotionally arousing
  • Bias: due to personal issues or prejudices
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  • private

- Error

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Disadvantages of I Data:

  • Limited behavioral information
  • Lack of access to private experience
  • Error: more likely to remember behaviors that are _________, unusual, or emotionally _________
  • _________: due to personal issues or prejudices
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  • extreme
  • arousing
  • Bias
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Life Outcomes (___) Data

A

L

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Life Outcomes (L) Data:

  • Obtained from _________ records or self-report
  • From_________ media
  • The results, or “_________,” of personality
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  • archival
  • social
  • residue
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Advantages and Disadvantages of L Data:

• _________ -
– Objective and verifiable
– Intrinsic importance
– Psychological relevance

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Advantages

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Advantages and Disadvantages of L Data:

• _________ -
– Multidetermination

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Disadvantage

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L Data:

• Advantages-
– Objective and _________
– _________ importance
– Psychological relevance

• Disadvantage-
– Multidetermination

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  • verifiable

- Intrinsic

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L Data:

• Advantages-
– Objective and verifiable
– Intrinsic importance
– Psychological _________

• Disadvantage-
– _________

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  • relevance

- Multidetermination

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Watch What the Person Does: __ Data

A

B

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Behavioral (B) Data:

• The most visible indication of an individual’s _________ is what she _________

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  • personality

- does

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_________ B Data:

  • Based on real life
  • Diary and experience-sampling methods
  • EAR: electronically activated recorder
  • Ambulatory assessment: using computer- assisted methods to assess behavior, thoughts, and feelings
A

Natural

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Natural B Data:

  • Based on real life
  • Diary and _________-sampling methods
  • _________: electronically activated recorder
  • _________ assessment: using computer- assisted methods to assess behavior, thoughts, and feelings
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  • experience
  • EAR
  • Ambulatory
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Natural B Data:

• Advantage -
– _________

• Disadvantages -
– Difficult
– Desired contexts may _________ occur

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  • Realistic

- seldom

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_________ B Data:

• Experiments
– Make a situation happen and record behavior
– Examine reactions to situations
– Represent real-life contexts that are difficult to observe directly
• Physiological measures: biological “behavior”

A

Laboratory

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Laboratory B Data:

• Experiments
– Make a situation happen and _________ behavior
– Examine _________ to situations
– Represent real-life contexts that are difficult to observe directly
• Physiological measures: biological “behavior”

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  • record

- reactions

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Laboratory B Data:

• Experiments
– Make a situation happen and record behavior
– Examine reactions to situations
– Represent _________ contexts that are difficult to observe directly
• _________ measures: biological “behavior”

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  • real-life

- Physiological

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Advantages and Disadvantages of ___ Data:

• Advantages
– Large range of contexts in the lab
– Appearance of objectivity
• But subjective judgments must still be made

• Disadvantages
– Difficult and expensive – Uncertain interpretation

A

B

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Advantages and Disadvantages of B Data:

• _________
– Large range of contexts in the lab
– Appearance of objectivity
• But subjective judgments must still be made

A

Advantages

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Advantages and Disadvantages of B Data:

• _________
– Difficult and expensive – Uncertain interpretation

A

Disadvantages

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B Data:

• Advantages
– Large range of contexts in the _________
– Appearance of objectivity
• But _________ judgments must still be made

• Disadvantages
– Difficult and expensive – Uncertain _________

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  • lab
  • subjective
  • interpretation
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Mixed Types of Data:

  • Data do not always fit into only one _________
  • There is a wide range of possible types of _________
  • Each type has advantages and disadvantages
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  • category

- data

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Quality of Data: _________

• Measurement error
– Also called error variance
– The cumulative effect of extraneous influences
• States versus traits

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Reliability

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Quality of Data: Reliability

• Measurement error
– Also called error _________
– The cumulative effect of extraneous influences
• States _________ traits

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  • variance

- versus

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Quality of Data: _________

• A “slippery” concept
– Reliability is necessary but not sufficient for validity
– Invokes the idea of “ultimate truth”

A

-Validity

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Quality of Data Validity:

• A “slippery” concept
– Reliability is necessary but not _________ for validity
– Invokes the idea of “_________”

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  • sufficient

- ultimate truth

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Quality of Data: _________

  • The distinction between reliability and validity is regarded as “fuzzy” by some
  • A broader concept than reliability or validity
A

Generalizability

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Quality of Data: Generalizability

  • The distinction between reliability and validity is regarded as “_______” by some
  • A _________ concept than reliability or validity
A
  • fuzzy

- broader

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Quality of Data: Generalizability:

•  Generalizability over participants 
  – College students versus \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_  
  – \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ bias
  – Shows versus no-shows
  – Ethnic and \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ diversity
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  • others
  • Gender
  • cultural
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Research Design: _________

• Can yield explanations of particular events, general lessons, and scientific principles

A

Case Method

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Research Design: Case Method

• _________
– Describes the whole phenomenon
– Source for ideas
– Sometimes necessary for understanding an individual

A

Advantages

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Research Design: Case Method

• _________
– Unknown generalizability
– No control

A

Disadvantages

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Research Design: Case Method

• Advantages
– Describes the whole phenomenon
– Source for _________
– Sometimes necessary for understanding an _________

• Disadvantages
– Unknown generalizability
– No _________

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  • ideas
  • individual
  • control
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Research Design: _________

• Definition: a research technique that establishes the causal relationship between an independent variable (x) and a dependent variable (y) by randomly assigning par,cipants to experimental groups characterized by differing levels of x, and measuring the average behavior y that results in each group

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  • Experimental Method
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Research Design: Experimental Method

• Definition: a research technique that establishes the causal relationship between an _________ variable (x) and a _________ variable (y) by randomly assigning participants to _________ groups characterized by differing levels of x, and measuring the average behavior y that results in each group

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  • independent
  • dependent
  • experimental
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Research Design: _________

• Test differences between groups with statistical tests to determine if the difference is larger than would be expected by chance

A

Experimental Method

81
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Research Design: _________

  • Scatter plot
  • Correlation coefficient
A

Correlational Method

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Research Design: Comparing the Experimental and Correlational Methods

  • Both attempt to assess the relationship between two _________
  • The statistics (with two groups) are _________
  • The experimental method manipulates the presumed causal variable, and the correlational method measures it
A
  • variables

- interchangeable

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Research Design: Comparing the Experimental and Correlational Methods

• The experimental method _________ the presumed causal variable, and the correlational method _________ it

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  • manipulates

- measures

84
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Research Design: Comparing the Experimental and Correlational Methods

• Only experiments can assess _________
• Reasons for not knowing causal direction in correlational studies
– _________ problem – Unknown direction of cause

A
  • causality

- Third-variable