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Understanding Threats to Validity in Behavioral Studies

Explore common threats to validity such as selection bias, participant reaction bias, and artifacts in psychological research. Learn about confounds and control variables to improve study accuracy. Discover key terms like participant reactance and double-blind procedures.

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Understanding Threats to Validity in Behavioral Studies

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  1. Chapter 5 How do we misinterpret? Common threats to validity

  2. People are Different • Individual differences and “third variables” • Selection bias and nonresponse bias

  3. People Change • History and maturation • Regression toward the mean

  4. The Process of Studying People Changes People • The Hawthorne Effect • Testing effects • Experimental mortality (attrition) • Participant reaction bias • Experimenter bias

  5. Moving from Three Threats to Two: Confounds & Artifacts • Confounds: an additional variable varies systematically with the IV or with the DV • Artifacts: important but overlooked variables that are held constant in an experiment • Confounds threaten internal validity; artifacts threaten external validity

  6. Pseudo-experiment Control group Selection bias Nonresponse bias History Maturation Regression toward the mean Hawthorne effect Testing effects Experimental mortality Attrition Homogeneous attrition Heterogeneous attrition Key Terms from Chapter 5

  7. Participant reaction bias Participant expectancies Demand characteristics Participant reactance Evaluation apprehension Cover story Unobtrusive observations Experimenter bias Double-blind procedure Confound Artifact Key Terms from Chapter 4

  8. Double-blind procedure Confound Key Terms from Chapter 4

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