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| An in-depth study of one individual. |
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| A relationship such that variation in one dimension produces variation in another. |
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| An association large enough to have some practical importance. |
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| A relationship in which two variables or dimensions covary when measured repeatedly. |
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| A numeric index of the degree of correlation between two variables. |
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| The variable measured as the outcome of an experiment; the effect in a cause-effect relation. |
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| Statistics used to describe or characterize some group. |
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| The holding constant of variables that are not being manipulated. |
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| The method in which one variable is manipulated to test for causal influence on another variable. |
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| experimental personality research |
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| A study involving a personality factor and an experimental factor. |
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| generality (generalizability) |
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| The degree to which a conclusion applies to many people. |
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| The variable manipulated in an experiment, tested as the cause in a cause-effect relation. |
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| Statistics used to judge whether a relationship exists between variables. |
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| A finding in which the effect of one predictor variable differs depending on the level of another predictor variable. |
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| A finding in which the effect of one predictor variable is independent of other variables. |
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| A study with two (or more) predictor variables. |
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| The study of the whole person, as opposed to studying only one aspect of the person. |
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| An association large enough to have practical importance. |
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| The process of putting people randomly into groups of an experiment so their characteristics balance out across groups. |
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| The likelihood of an obtained effect occurring when there is no true effect. |
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| The possibility that an unmeasured variable caused variation in both of two correlated variables. |
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| A dimension along which two or more variations exist. |
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