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| measurable such as time and sound |
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| which variable cannot be manipulated |
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| any characteristic that can vary across organisms situations or environments |
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| the response of the organism; the variable that measures the influence of the independent variable. |
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| a variable that comes in whole units or categories (family members, sick or well, male or female, etc) |
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| a variable that forms a continuum and that can be represented by fractional and whole units (latency for a response, attitude towards something, etc) |
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| a qualitative variable is |
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| a variable that varies in kind (like a diagnosis, or being labeled as attractive) |
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| a quantitative variable is |
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| a variable that varies in amount (loudness is measured in decibels, etc) |
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| the presence versus absence technique in an experiment |
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| one group gets the technique, one does not |
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| amount of a variable technique in an experiment |
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| administering different amounts of the variable to each of several groups (0,20,50, etc) |
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| type of variable technique in an experiment |
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| generate variation in the IV, (teacher is given a label with students they are about to face, troublemaker, good kid, etc) |
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| Way to create variation in the IV: Experimental Manipulation |
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| experimenter administers one specific controlled amount of a variable to one group of individuals and a different amount of the same variable for the second group |
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| Way to create variation in the IV: Instructional manipulation |
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| varying the IV by giving different sets of instructions to the participants. |
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| Way to create variation in the IV: Event Manipulation |
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| Varying the IV by altering the events that participants experience (vary level of anxiety by exposing one group to a nice dog and one to a rabid, disease infested, horrible, foul mangy creature, also known as reecie) |
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| Way to create variation in the IV: Individual difference manipulation |
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| varying the IV by selecting participants that differ in the amount or type of a measured internal state (selecting people that have high test anxiety scores and ones that have low test anxiety scores) |
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If you manipulate the IV by giving one group of participants an impossible task and another an easy one, you have manipulated the IV by:
A: presence versus absence
B: amount of IV administered
C: An Individual difference manipulation
D: an event manipulation
E: an instructional manipulation |
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What Criterion should be used when selecting the DV
A. you should select a behv and not a mentalistic concept
B. you should select a response measure that is sensitive to the effect of the independent variable
C. you should select a response that cannot be faked by research participants
D. you should select a response that has face validity
E. you should select an uncomplicated response |
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| B: you should select a response measure that is sensitive to the effect of the independent variable |
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which of the following variables would create the greatest amount of difficulty when translating into concrete operational terms?
A. drug amount
B. amount of violence demonstrated
C. time taken to perform a task
d. weight loss
e. temperature decline in biofeedback task |
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| B.amount of violence demonstrated |
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how many independent variables should be used in a study?
A. however many are needed to reveal the important relationships
b. no more than two because of the difficulty in interpretation
c. as many as can be used to identify the complex human relationships
d. at least 4 to have a valid study |
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| A. however many are needed to reveal the important relationships |
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