Chapter 1 - Developing Basic Concepts

This set includes information about the important terms and definitions included in the first chapter of the SEPS book designated for this class. It was created in preparation for a midterm examination.

hypothesis

best guess about how the change you made might affect another factor

hypothesis

the statement predicting affects of changes made in the independent variable on the dependent variable

hypothesis

if … then

independent variable

the variable purposely changed or manipulated

independent variable

manipulated variable

dependent variable

variable that changes in response

dependent variable

responding variable

constant

all the factors that remain the same throughout the experiment

constant

important because unknown changing conditions could be affecting your data

constants staying same

if an unchanged trial performs very similarly every time

control

used to detect any hidden variables

control

set of repeated trials where independent variables are not changed

control

treated the same as all other IV levels

control

can also be another designated level of the IV

quantitative data

expressed as numbers

quantitative data

measurements, counts

quantitative data

gives rise to a measure of central tendency (mean)

qualitiative data

observations rather than measurements

qualitative data

expressed more like descriptions

qualitative data

data is summarized by thinking of most frequent observations (mode)

qualitative data

mean is not possible becuse the data are not in numeric form