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| Body of data collected from every member of a population of interest |
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| Identify a subset of people in the population (or a sample) who are then studied |
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| Uses random sampling to identify a sample of people to be surveyed |
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Survey that uses a cluster sampling method is still a population survey, but it uses a
modified version of random selections |
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| Reflects the likely discrepancy between the results one obtains in a specific sample and the results one would have been likely to have obtained from the entire population - the margin of error |
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| Refers to the scientific study of the causes of disease |
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| Referring to descriptive studies that focus primarily on the prevalence of different psychological disorders within meaningful, well-defined populations |
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| Research designed to assess consumers‘ attitudes about and preferences for different products and services |
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| Judgment and decision making |
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| Single-variable research in which participants' judgements or decisions on a specific topic are compared with the judgments or decisions that would be made by a purely rational decision maker |
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| Test theories and hypotheses by looking at the associations of variables in natural settings |
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| Occurs when a variable seems to cause something because people who are high or low on this variable also happen to be high or low on some individual difference variable that is associated with the outcome variable of interest (Depression -> Anxiety) |
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| refers to environmental rather thatn personological nuisance variables (Stressfull life -> negate self-views) |
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| Occur when a measure designed to assess a specific construct such as depression, memory, or foot size inadvertenly measures something else as well |
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| Follow people over time and make repeated assessments of the ariables of interest |
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| Archival research designs |
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| Refers to research in which investigators examine naturally existing public records to test a theorie or hypothesis |
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| Research in which investigators record the real behavior of people in their natural environment |
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Meaning: 1) That researchers do not interfere in any way with people's natural behavior
2) People do not realize that they are being studied |
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