Research Methods Crossword

Watching behaviour in a real-world setting
Studying one or a small number of people for an extended period of time
measures & assess characteristics such as personality, interests, or mental illness
every person in the population has an equal chance of being selected
Consistency of measurements
Extent to which a measure assesses what it claims to measure
Similar scores over time
Two raters should produce similar scores
Examine the extent to which 2 variables are associated
as one increases or decreases so does the other (______ correlation)
as one increases, the other decreases (______ correlation)
Perception of a statistical association where none exists
full moon related to weird behaviour
group that receives manipulation
group that does not receive manipulation
variable that is manipulated
variable that is measured
both groups exposed to experiment (no random selection)
Improvement because you EXPECT to improve
Harm resulting from the expectation of harm
Researchers’ hypothesis leads them to unintentionally bias the outcome
Cues that participants pick up allowing them to guess the researcher’s hypothesis
numerical characteristics of the nature of data
allows us to determine whether we can generalize findings from the sample to the population