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Applied RM II
Dr. Clegg
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Psychology
Undergraduate 3
03/24/2010

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Examples of professional contributions
Definition
1. Developing the research design
2. Writing portions of the manuscript
3. Integrating diverse theoretical perspective
4. Developing new conceptual models
5. Designing assessments
6. Contributing to data
Term
topics of authorship
Definition
profession contributions
examples
not considered professional
establish before
guidelines
book definition
Term
British Psychological Society guidelines
Definition
consideration should be given based on whats conducted by the student
experiment design
statistical analysis
interpretation of the results
Term
reliability and validity
Definition
Validity can always guarantee reliability, but the reverse is not true.
Term
Reliability
Definition
Establish a cutoff value of reliability
Maximize individual difference variance and reduce error variance
Term
Maximize individual difference variance and reduce error variance
Definition
1. generate unambiguous items
2. add more of the same items
3. clear instructions
Term
Reliability types
Definition
1. test – retest: should get consistent measures
2. interitem correlation: use with test- retest => use of pearson rsquared
3. split-half reliability: split items in half expert high correlation [what are the halves? Equal?]
4. crobach alpha- solution to the equal halves problem
5. kudev-richardson: same as cronbachs but with yes/no questions
Term
Validity definition and types
Definition
does you measure actually measure target
1. Content validity
2. Covergent validity
3. Discrimnate validity:
Term
Covergent validity
Definition
extent to which you measured is convergent with another measure
Term
topics of survey
Definition
I. Downfalls of a survey
II. presentation of the survey
III. format for answers
IV. Question Order
V. Sections and Numbering
VI. Construction
VII. Demographics
Term
Downfalls of a survey
Definition
hurt the construct validity
People don’t always know what they are doing or what influenced them
Memories are inaccurate, and are not static
Poor at predicting, can be poor at comparisons
May not tell the truth
Term
III. format for answers
Definition
A. scaled answers
B. open ended
Term
A. scaled answers
Definition
interval
ratings
comparisons
ordinal
Term
Question Order:
Definition
Sometimes good to start with interesting questions
Sometimes start with routine questions
Keep in mind carry-over effects
Term
Construction
Definition
194
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Demographics
Definition
Put at the end, easily answered and for fatigued.
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