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| Th complete set of individuals objects or scores that the investigator is interested in studying |
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| a subset of the population, a smaller piece of the population |
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| measurements that are made on the subjects of the experiment |
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| any property or characteristic of some event object or person that may have different values |
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| manipulated by the experimenter |
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| what the investigator measures to determine the effect of the independent variable. |
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| number calculated on the sample |
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| number calculated on the population |
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| What are the four methods of acquiring knowledge |
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| Authority, rationalism, intuition, and scientific method |
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| Developed from tradition over time. Everyone says the world is round, so we believe it. |
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| If reasoning is carried out correctly according to the rules of logic the conclusion yields the truth. Dogs need food. The store sells food that says dog food. Therefore i should feed my dog dogfood. |
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| Sudden insight that springs into consciousness. |
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| Develops a hypothesis, then designs an experiment to objectively test the hypothesis that can be repeated. |
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| No variables are manipulated. You are observing and trying to not impact the observation as best as possible. |
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| concerned with techniques that are used to describe or characterize the obtained data |
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| involves techniques that use the obtained sample data to infer to populations. |
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| is one that theoretically can have an infinite number of values between adjacent units on the scale |
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| is one in which there are no possible values between adjacent units on the scale |
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| on in which the units represent raw score magnitudes, there are equal intervals between adjacent units on the scale and there is no absolute zero point. Like a thermometer, 2 degrees in temperature increase is the same between 8 and 10 as 78 and 80 degrees |
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| one that has categories for the units Lowest level of measurement that are qualitative, like jogging shoes, kinds of fruit, types of music |
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| one in which the numbers on the scale represent rank orderings, rather than raw score magnitudes. Like the top 5 rank of contestants in a speech contest |
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| is one in which the units represent raw score magnitdes , there are equal intervals between adjacent units on the scale, and there is an absolute zero point. |
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| Real limits of a continuous variable |
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| are those values that are above and below the recorded value by one-half of the smallest measuring unit of the scale |
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| the sum of all the scores |
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| highest score minus the lowest score |
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| if you can fold it in half and it's the same |
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| up then down the hill like on a bike |
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