Details Title: Intimate Relationships Description: Study of intimate relationships Total Flash Cards: 8 Created: 09/13/2009 19:44:29		New Users: To study from this flashcard set, or to create your own your own study flash cards, REGISTER HERE. Existing Users: CLICK HERE. Additional Women's & Gender Studies Flashcards
Cards in this set: Term Representative Sample Definition Strive to achieve that their participants resemble the entire population of people who are relevant to the research question. Term Cross-Sectional Designs Definition Compares different people at different stages or ages in a developmental process. Term Longitudinal Design Definition The same people are followed with repeated measurements over a period of time. Term Participant Attrition Definition The loss of participants over time. Term Retrospective Design Definition Long or short periods of time over which a study is held. Term Self-Serving Bias Definition Leads people to overestimate their responsibility for positive events in their relationships and to underestimate their blame for the bad times. Term Experience-Sampling Definition A method of observations using intermittent, short periods of observation to capture samples of behavior that actually occur over longer periods of time. Term Meta-Analyses Definition Studies that statistically combine the results from several prior studies.