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Ambulatory assessment
An overarching term to describe methodologies that assess the behaviour, physiology, experience, and environments of humans in naturalistic settings.
Daily diary method
A methodology where participants complete a questionnaire about their thoughts, feelings, and behaviour of the day at the end of the day.
Day reconstruction method (DRM)
A methodology where participants describe their experiences and behaviour of a given day retrospectively upon a systemic reconstruction on the following day.
Ecological momentary assessment
An overarching term to describe methodologies that repeatedly sample participants’ real world experiences, behaviour, and physiology in real time.
Ecological validity
The degree to which a study finding has been obtained under conditions that are typical for what happens in everyday life.
Electronically activated recorder, or EAR
A methodology where participants wear a small, portable audio recorder that intermittently records snippets of ambient sounds around them.
Experience-sampling method
A methodology where participants report on their momentary thoughts, feelings, and behaviours at different points in time over the course of the day.
External validity
The degree to which a finding generalizes from the specific sample and context of a study to some larger population and broader settings.
Full-cycle psychology
A scientific approach whereby researchers start with an observational field study to identify an effect in the real world, follow up with laboratory experimentation to verify the effect and isolate the causal mechanisms, and return to field research to corroborate their experimental findings.
Generalize
Generalizing, in science, refers to the ability to arrive at broad conclusions based on a smaller sample of observations. For these conclusions to be true the sample sould accurately represent the larger population from which it is drawn.
Internal validity
The degree to which a cause-effect relationship between two variables has been unambiguously established.
Linguistic inquiry and word count
A quantative text analysis methodology that automatically extracts grammatical and psychological information from a text by counting word frequencies.
Lived day analysis
A methodology where a research team follows an individual around with a video camera to objectively document a person’s daily life as it is lived.
White coat hypertension
A phenomenon in which patients exhibit elevated blood pressure in the hospital or doctors’s office but not in their everyday lives.
To study cheating habits, Dr. Martin creates a study that asks participants to take an exam in a room where there is an open textbook on a desk, while being watched and videotaped. Because this study doesn’t mirror everyday life, it would be particularly low in which quality?
Ecological validity.
Each night before she goes to bed, Youngha’s smartphone prompts her to log into a specific website and to answer several questions about her thoughts, feelings, and behaviours. She does this every day for one month as part of a research study she volunteered for. Which method is the researcher employing?
The daily diary method.
After the terrorist attacks in New York City on September 11, 2001, Cohn, Mehl, and Pennebaker examined blogs of users of a specific website. Through their use of ___, they determined that their participants expressed more negative emotions and were more cognitively and socially engaged for two weeks. after that period of time, these levels returned to baseline.
Linguistic analyses.
