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Stats Test 1

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What is empiricism?   show
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show 1. Hypothesis 2. Procedures (Experiments) 3. Data (Results) 4. Findings (Conclusion)  
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Should scientists remain skeptical?   show
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show Science builds and collects on past experiments  
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What are variables?   show
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What are constructs?   show
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show Operational definitions ex: cognitive task performance can be defined as # of errors detected on a proofreading task in a 10 min period  
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show We sometimes want control so we can isolate variables  
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- Does a scientist want to deign his or her research such that someone can falsify their results?   show
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Does a researcher want to remain unbiased?   show
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show Ideographic research concerns individual variance (difference between individuals) Nomothetic research concerns general rules (humans as a group)  
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- What are some things that you have to be careful of relying on and blindly believing if you are doing research?   show
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- Be able to name and define the one type of bias that we discussed in class that may occur in research.   show
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- What is it called when you think there is a relationship between two variables when there really is not?   show
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show Ad Hominem  
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How does the pressure to publish sometimes hurt scientific research?   show
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Be able to list and define all of the basic goals of research.   show
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What are cause and effect relationships?   show
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- Be able to list and define the three things one needs to make a cause and effect statement.   show
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What is the difference between applied and basic research?   show
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- What is the first step is doing research and on what do you base this decision?   show
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