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| Scales of Measurement: Nominal |
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| A scale in which objects or individuals are assigned to categories that have no numerical properties. EX. Religion, Race, and Sex |
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| Scales of Measurement: Ordinal |
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| A scale in which objects or individuals are categorized and the categories form a rank order along a continuum. EX. Class rank and Letter grade. |
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| Scales of Measurement: Interval |
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| A scale in which the unites of measurement between the numbers on the scale are all equal in size. EX. Temperature and many different Psych tests. |
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| Scales of Measurement: Ratio |
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| A scale in which, in addition to order and equal units of measurement, an absolute 0 indicates an absence of the variable being measured. EX. Weight, Height, and Time. |
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| asks people to report how often they do something. EX. Food Diaries, go to the gym |
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| Asks individuals to report what htey think about something. EX. What do you think about the food service? |
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| asks individuals to report how they feel about something. Ex. questions concerning emotional reactions like depressions. |
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| measure an individual's potential to do something. EX. Intelligence Test |
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| Measures an individual's competence in an area. EX. ACT or SAT |
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| A possible reaction by participants in which they act unnaturally because they know they are being observed |
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| Quasi-experimental method |
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| Research that compares naturally occurring groups or individuals; The variable of interest cannot be manipulated. |
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| a characteristic inherent in the participants that cannot be changed |
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| observational method, Case Study, and survey method. Allows description of behavior, does not support reliable predictions, does not support cause/effect explanations. |
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| Correlation Method and Quasi-experimental method. Allows description of behavior, supports reliable predictions from one variable to another, does not support cause/effect explanations. |
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| Experimental Method. Allows description of behaviors, supports reliable predictions from one variable to another, supports cause/effect explanation. |
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| variables that usually consist of whole number units or categories and are made up of chunks or unites that are detached and distinct. |
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| variables that usually fall along a continuum and allow for fractional amounts. |
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