Glossary

What does 'a (alpha)' represent in the context of null hypothesis testing?

Which term refers to a brief summary of a study's research question, methods, results, and conclusions?

According to the glossary, what is an 'alternating treatments design'?

What does the 'alternative hypothesis' propose?

An Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) is a statistical test used for what purpose?

In what year was the APA's Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct first published?

What is the primary focus of 'applied research'?

In research ethics, what does the principle of 'autonomy' refer to?

What is the 'baseline' in an ABA design?

What is 'Bayesian statistics'?

Which principle from the Belmont Report underscores the importance of maximizing research benefits while minimizing harms?

What is a 'between-subjects experiment'?

The acronym BRUSO is used as a guideline for creating effective questionnaire items. What does the 'B' in BRUSO stand for?

What is a 'carryover effect'?

A variable like a student's chosen major (e.g., Psychology, English, Nursing) is an example of what type of variable?

What is another term for 'central tendency'?

Which term describes a helper in a study who pretends to be a real participant?

What does a 'confidence interval' represent?

What is a 'confounding variable'?

What does 'construct validity' refer to?

What type of research focuses on the statistical relationship between two variables without manipulating an independent variable?

What is the purpose of 'counterbalancing'?

What does the term 'critical value' refer to in statistics?

Cronbach's alpha is a statistic that measures what property of a scale?

The process of informing participants about the purpose of a study and revealing any deception after their participation is known as what?

What is the 'directionality problem' in correlational research?

What is 'discriminant validity'?

What is the purpose of a 'double-blind study'?

Which term describes questions about the way the world actually is, which can be answered by systematic observation?

What does the term 'ethics' refer to?

What is an 'extraneous variable'?

What is 'face validity'?

A scientific claim is considered 'falsifiable' if...

What is the 'file drawer problem'?

What is 'grounded theory'?

What is the 'Hawthorne effect'?

Which term describes mental shortcuts used in forming and maintaining our beliefs?

What is a 'hypothesis'?

What does 'inter-rater reliability' measure?

Which term refers to the consistency of people's responses across the items on a multiple-item measure?

What does 'internal validity' refer to?

What is an 'interrupted time-series design'?

Changing the level of an independent variable systematically so that different groups of participants are exposed to different levels is known as what?

What is the purpose of a 'manipulation check'?

A threat to internal validity where participants might have changed between the pretest and posttest simply because they are growing and learning is known as what?

What is 'mean squares between groups (MSB)' an estimate of?

A review article that provides a statistical summary of all previous results on a topic is called what?

What is the defining characteristic of a 'mixed factorial design'?

What is 'mundane realism'?

A relationship in which higher scores on one variable tend to be associated with lower scores on the other is known as what?