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-written by the people who performed experiment that the paper is about
-article not a review or dissertation |
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| definition of a variable in terms of the activities/variables/operations the researcher uses to measure or manipulate |
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| the degree to which an instrument is accurately measuring what is supposed to be measuring |
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| variable you manipulate or change (manipulate the independent loner) |
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| He variable being study (the control) |
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-Summarizes the main idea
-Concise statement or main topic or variables or issues |
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-name then
-institutional affiliation, provide acknowledgements, disclaimers, point of contact |
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-150-250 word summary of study
-purpose amd content
-report not evaluate
-clear and concise present tense
-the problem, participants (specifics), essential features of method, basic findings, conclusion and implications |
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-introduce problem
-relation to previous work
-primary and secondary hypothesis
-design relations, theoretical and practical
-what was done and why |
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-allows reader to evaluate appropriateness and validity
-Identify subsections: participants, tools, procedure
-Participants: describe the sample, demographic characteristics
-Sampling procedures: how did you collect participants
-Sample size, power, and precision: size and number, target population, how it was determined
-Manipulations or interventions: describe |
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-Summarize collected data and analysis, sufficient detail, all relevant results, no individual results
-Recruitment: periods of recruitment and follow-up
-Statistics and data analysis: accurate, unbiased, complete, null hypothesis, graphs, charts, etc. |
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-Open with a clear statement of support or unsupport
-Sources of potential biases and threats to validity, impression of measurements, overall number of test or overlap among test, the effect sizes observed, other limitations or weaknesses
-End with a reasonable and justifiable
commentary on importance
-Unsolved problems |
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-bibliography
-Acknowledge work of scholars |
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-Golan et al. (2008)
Herbst-Damm, K.L., & Kulik, J.A. (2005). Volunteer
support, martial status, and the survival
times of terminally ill patients. Health
Psychology, 24 225-229. Doi:
23490823/23048.10
IF NO DOI: just say Retrived from ebscohost.com/ or whatever |
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-Based off of the Nuremberg Code which were 10 principals developed in 1948 for Nazi was criminals
-Institutional Review Board (IRB): evaluate research projects in which human subjects are used
-Informed consent: tell about the general nature of the study and obtain consent
-Tell about purpose but is broad and
general
-When deception is used, no more info is
given
-Risk: "at risk" or "minimal risk"
-Minimal risk: under no more psychological, emotional, or physical stress than usual daily life
-At Risk: physical or emotional harm is possible
-Deception: Lying to subjects about real nature of study
-Must debrief (provide information about real nature of study) as soon data collection is complete
-With Children: Get consent from parent of legal guardian
-Ethical Issues: not explaining the real reason for the study (deception), putting participants at physical or emotional risk, whether or not to use animals because they cannot consent |
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-categories, categorizing, not numbers separated into groups
-Gender (all IV's) |
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-scale in which objects or individuals are categorized by rank
-places in a race, class rankings |
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-numbers on the scale are all equal in size identity, magnitude and equal unit met
-Likert rating scales, most psychological scales |
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-Absolute Zero is possible
-height, weight, age, time |
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| (Types of Measures) Self Report |
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| -Self report: questionnaires or interviews that measure thought, behavior, emotion |
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| (Types of Measures) Self Report |
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| -Self report: questionnaires or interviews that measure thought, behavior, emotion |
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| (Types of Measures) Tests |
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| -Measure individual differences in content |
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| (Types of Measures) Behavioral measure |
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| -Behavioral measure: observing and recording behavior |
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| (Types of Measures) Reactivity |
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| -Participants act unnaturally because of observation |
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| (Types of Measures) Physical Measures |
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| -Bodily activity, pulse, bloop pressure, that can be taken |
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| -Discrete: whole number units or categories and are made up of chunks or units thats are detached and distinct from each other |
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| -fall along a continuum and allow for fractional amounts |
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| -A measure of the truthfulness of the measuring instrument; it is measuring what it claims to |
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| (Validity) Content Validity |
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| Content Validity: covers a representative sample of the domain of behaviors to be manipulated |
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| appears valid on the surface |
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| (Validity) Criterion validity |
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-Accurately prefidcts behavior or ability in a given are.
-Concurrent: present behavior
-Predictive: future behavior (SAT,GRE) |
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| (Validity) External Validity |
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| -the extent to which the results can be generalized |
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| (Validity) Convergent Validity |
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| the degree to which the operation to other operations that it is supposed to be similar to |
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| (Validity) Divergent Validity |
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| -the degree to which the operation does now correlate to other operations that are similar |
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| indication of consistency or stability of a measuring instrument |
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| (Reliability) Dictators of Reliability |
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-Can the results be repeated?
-Correlational coefficient: (-1 to +1) stronger
the relationship, the closer to either 1 it will
and, the weaker the relationship,closer to 0
-+ correlation: increase in one is an increase in another
--correlation: increase in on is a decrease in another |
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| -Middle of whole distribution |
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-Not too much skew or outliers
-Data measured at interval or ratio levels |
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| (Central tendency) Median |
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-mean is not valid
-data measured on ordinal scale |
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