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| Shared framework involving common theory and data collection tools in which researchers ordinarily approach scientific problems. |
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| Revolution in assumptions about and perceptions of a research problem during which one paradigm replaces another. |
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| Plausible Rival Hypothesis |
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| Believable or possible alternative explanations for an observation. |
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| Brief summary that appears at the beginning of most social research reports and that can be retrieved by an abstracting service |
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| Effect of measurement error or unreliability in reducing the apparent magnatude of association between two variables |
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| Portion of the human nervous system including two subsystems, the sympathetic and the parasympathetic, the former of which controls certain bodily responses indication emotion. |
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| Probability of wronly failing to reject a null hypothesis. |
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| That part of the deviation of the observed score from the true value of the construct being measured that is unchanging. |
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| That part of the difference between the survey sample estimate and the true population value that is consistently in one direction. |
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