Psych Vocab Quiz Part 3

Define Validity

• A research method that relies on in-depth, narrative data that are not translated into numbers.

• Anything that can vary and is feasible and ethical to measure.

• A research method that relies on quantifiable, numerical data.

• The difference between the highest and lowest scores in a distribution.

Define Quantitative research

• A computer measure of how much scores vary around the mean score.

• A research method that relies on in-depth, narrative data that are not translated into numbers.

• Anything that can vary and is feasible and ethical to measure.

• A research method that relies on quantifiable, numerical data.

Define Qualitative research

• A computer measure of how much scores vary around the mean score.

• A research method that relies on in-depth, narrative data that are not translated into numbers.

• A research method that relies on quantifiable, numerical data.

• Anything that can vary and is feasible and ethical to measure.

Define Informed consent

• Participants consent to the day and time of the experiment.

• Anything that can vary and is feasible and ethical to measure.

• The post experimental explanation of a study, including its purpose and any deceptions, to its participants.

• Giving potential participants enough information about a study to enable them to choose whether they wish to participate.

Define Debriefing

• Giving potential participants enough information about a study to enable them to choose whether they wish to participate.

• The post experimental explanation of a study, including its purpose and any deceptions, to its participants.

• Anything that can vary and is feasible and ethical to measure.

• The difference between the highest and lowest scores in a distribution.

Define Descriptive statistics

• A computer measure of how much scores vary around the mean score.

• The difference between the highest and lowest scores in a distribution.

• A bar graph depicting a frequency distribution

• Numerical data used to measure and describe characteristics of groups; include measures of central tendency and measures of variation

Define Histogram

• A bar graph depicting a frequency distribution

• The difference between the highest and lowest scores in a distribution.

• A symmetrical, bell-shaped curve that describes the distribution of many types of data. 

• Numerical data that allow one to generalize-to infer from sample data the probability of something being true of a population.

Define Range

• A symmetrical, bell-shaped curve that describes the distribution of many types of data. 

• A computer measure of how much scores vary around the mean score.

• Anything that can vary and is feasible and ethical to measure.

• The difference between the highest and lowest scores in a distribution.

Define standard deviation

• A statistical procedure for analyzing the results of multiple studies to reach an overall conclusion.

• Numerical data that allow one to generalize-to infer from sample data the probability of something being true of a population.

• A symmetrical, bell-shaped curve that describes the distribution of many types of data. 

• A computer measure of how much scores vary around the mean score.

Define Normal curve

• The difference between the highest and lowest scores in a distribution.

• The difference between the highest and lowest scores in a distribution.

• A computer measure of how much scores vary around the mean score.

• A symmetrical, bell-shaped curve that describes the distribution of many types of data.