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| Confidence we are measuring what we claim to be measuring |
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| Confidence that the findings could be generalized to another situation |
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| Confidence that we have a representative sample of the population |
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| The same conditions for each participant |
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| Confidence that the only explanation for our results is what we claim it is |
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| a variable that cannot be randomly assigned by the experimenter |
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| Measurements used to place participants into categories to name them |
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| Measurements that are along a continuum that provides both intensity and magnitude |
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| Measurements that are at equal intervals between separate scores |
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| Measurements separated by equal intervals that incorporate an absolute value score |
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| Belief perseverance effect |
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| It requires more effort to change an opinion that it did to create that opinion |
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| We more actively seek answers that confirm our beliefs than refute them |
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| Each participant is only exposed to one level of the IV |
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| Each participant is exposed to each level of the IV |
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| Assigning participants to groups so that each group possess equal attributes on some dimension |
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| the same person will get a similar score every time they take it |
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| multiple raters can come up with the same solution |
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| an extraneous variable that is systematically varying along with the IV |
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| Both participant and the experimenter are blind to the experimental condition |
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| difference related to a confound |
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| When significant data is found but is not used because there was a flaw in the design |
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| When data is found to be not significant by is used by the researcher |
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