Practice Questions & Excel Skills Review
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3. How should the running head look?: All capitzlied, shortened version of the title
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4. What are independent variable levels?: Ditterentcategorieswithintheindependentvariable
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5. What is a conceptual definition?: Aclear,generalideaofwhata phenomenonmeans
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6. What is an operational definition?: Howaphenomenonismeasuredorobservedinastudy
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7. What isexperimental design?: Avisualmaporstructureshowinghowastudyiss
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8. What is a true experiment?: A study where participants are randomly assigned to groups, and the IV is
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9. What is a quasi-experiment?: A study without random assignment to groups
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10. What is internal validity?: Howwellthestudyavoidserrorsinsidethestudy,likebias
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11. Whatisexternalvalidity?:Howwellthestudy'sfindingsapplytotherealworld
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12. What is a sample?: Thegroupofpeoplechosentoparticipateinastudy
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13. Howare participants assigned togroups?:Byrandomassignmentorspecificcriteria
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14. What is a research question?: Aquestionthestudytriestoanswer
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15. What is a hypothesis?: Apredictionthestudytests
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16. Whataredatacollectionmethods?:Questionnaires,interviews,observation,biologicalor
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17. What is a statistical test?: Atooltoanalyzedataandcheckforpatternsorditterences
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18. What are spurious variables?: Extravariablesthatcanattectthestudybutaren'tpartofit
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