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Introduction to research methods
Chapter 4 Moving from Notions to Numbers
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
11/23/2012

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Judgment phase
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During the judgment phase of answering a self-report question, participants determine what question is being asked, and they form some initial response to the question.
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Response translation phase
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Structured self-report questions
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Way of assessing people's thoughts, feelings, dispositions, or motivational states
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Pilot testing
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Very broad methodological term, used most frequently to refer to the use of practice studies that are designed to help researchers refine the measures or manipulations they wish to use in the full-blown version of a real study
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Focus groups
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A small but representative sample of participants from the group a researcher wishes to understand meet together to discuss their experiences.
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Double-barreled question
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Asks you to evaluate two different things using a single response
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Forced-choice questions
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Ask participants to select one of two or more options
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Floor effects
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Occur when almost everyone in a sample responds at the same low level on a question or dependent measure
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Ceiling effects
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Occur when almost everyone in a sample responds at the same high level on a quesiton or dependent measure
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Equal appearing intervals
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The psychological distance implied by a single-unit difference on the rating scale remains constant across the entire range of the scale
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