Exam 1 Flashcards
(19 cards)
A researcher asks participants to report what state they currently reside in. What type of scale is this?
Nominal
A researcher records how many times a participant says the word “um” while being interviewed. What type of scale is this?
Ratio
A researcher uses a scale that asks student participants to rank their classes from “favorite” to “least favorite”. What type of scale is this?
Ordinal
A researcher asks body language experts to rate the current mood of a person giving a speech on a scale of -100 to 100, where -100 is the most unhappy and 100 is the happiest. What type of scale is this?
Interval
This statistic measures internal consistency.
Cronbach’s Alpha
If a childhood trauma scale is better at capturing acute sources of trauma than chronic sources of trauma, scores on that scale have a lesser degree of ________ validity
Content
Rorschach inkblot tests ask people to report what they see in an ambiguous image. These responses are used to judge personality traits. Rorschach inkblot tests generally are considered to have low _________ validity, because this task appears to have little to do with personality.
Face
A new assessment of ADHD correlates strongly with existing ADHD assessments. This suggests a higher degree of ________ validity.
Concurrent
What feels right and what our gut tells us
Intuition
Truth is what authority figures tell us is true
Authority
Three characteristics of science:
- Systematic empiricism
- Creates Public Knowledge
- Empirical Questions
Deriving knowledge by using logic and reasoning
Rationalism
Observation, measurement, direct experience
Empiricism
Legitimate academic discipline applying
systematic techniques to gathering information
- History, Linguistics, Literature
Nonscience
