Field Methods Lesson 3

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These are hypothetical attributes or mechanisms that help explain and predict behavior in a theory.

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Constructs

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It is a set of statements about the mechanisms underlying a particular behavior.

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Theory

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It is a procedure for indirectly measuring and defining a variable that cannot be observed or measured directly.

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Operational Definition

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It specifies a measurement procedure for measuring external, observable behavior and uses the resulting measurements as a definition and a measurement of the hypothetical construct.

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Operational Definition

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True or False:

It is easy for operational definitions to leave out important components of a construct.

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True

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True or False:

Operational definitions do not include extra components that are not part of the construct.

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False:

They often include extra components that are not part of the construct being measured.

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This graph shows the amount of consistency between two different measurements, the two scores being represented as a single point.

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Scatter Plot

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It is the degree to which the measurement process measures the variable that it claims to measure.

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Validity

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A form of validity in which a measurement procedure superficially appears to measure what it claims to measure.

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Face Validity

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Type of validity that is demonstrated when scores obtained from a new measure are directly related to scores obtained from an established measure of the same variable.

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Concurrent Validity