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Title: Intimate Relationships

Description: Study of intimate relationships

Total Flash Cards: 8

Created: 09/13/2009 19:44:29

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Representative Sample


Definition
Strive to achieve that their participants resemble the entire population of people who are relevant to the research question.
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Cross-Sectional Designs
Definition
Compares different people at different stages or ages in a developmental process.
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Longitudinal Design
Definition
The same people are followed with repeated measurements over a period of time.
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Participant Attrition
Definition
The loss of participants over time.
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Retrospective Design
Definition
Long or short periods of time over which a study is held.
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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.
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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.
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Meta-Analyses
Definition
Studies that statistically combine the results from several prior studies.