Psych midterm pt 3

he relative accuracy or corectness of the statement

the extent to which a set of research findings provides compelling information about causality

the extent to which a set of research findings provides an accurate description of what typically happens in the real world

the extent to which the independant and dependant variables in a study truely represents the abstract, hypothetical variables of interest to the researcher

how well a specific research hypothesis maps onto the border theory that it was designed to test

the consistancy or repeatability of a measure of observation

measuring a group of individuals at one time and then having them come back a second time to take the test again

the approach to assessing validity

the degree to which different judges independantly agree upon observation or judgement

for one variable to cause another, changes in one variable must correspond with changes in the other

meaningful but potentially arbitrary nonnumerical names or catagories