This is a list of the important terms used in the articles of block 2 of WSRt at the uva.
Accuracy motives: to learn and publish true things about human nature
Professional motives: to succeed and thrive professionally.
Statistical inference: the logic underlying all the statistics you see in the professional journals of psychology and most other disciplines that regularly use statistics.
The subjective interpretation of probability: a probability is a degree of conviction of a belief
The objective interpretation of probability: locate probability in the world.
Alpha: the long-term error rate for one type of error: saying the null is false when it is true.
Type I error: when the null is true and we reject it.
Type II error: accepting the null when it is false.
Meta-analysis: the process of combining groups of studies together to obtain overall tests of significance.
Descriptive adequacy: does the theory accord with the available data?
Precision and interpretability: Is the theory described in a sufficiently precise fashion that other theorists can interpret it easily and unambiguously?
Coherence and consistency: Are there logical flaws in the theory? Does each component of the theory seem to fit with the others in to a coherent whole? Is it consistent with theory in other domains?
Prediction and falsifiability: Is the theory formulated in such a way that critical tests can be conducted that could reasonably lead to the rejection of the theory?
Postdiction and explanation: Does the theory provide a genuine explanation of existing results?
Parsimony: Is the theory as simple as possible?
Originality: Is the theory new or is it essentially a restatement of an existing theory?
Breadth: does the theory apply to a broad range of phenomena or is it restricted to a limited domain?
Usability: does the theory have applied implications?
Rationality: does the theory make claims about the architecture of mind that seem reasonable in the light of the environmental contingencies that have shaped or evolutionary theory?
A potential falsifier of a theory: any potential observation that would contradict the theory.
Confounders: variables associated with both treatment and outcome
Stability: the robustness of a set of relationships across a range of possible magnitudes.
Provisional causality: causality contingent upon the set of assumptions that our causal diagram advertises.
Counfounding: anything that makes P(Y|do(X)) differ from P(Y|X).
A back-door path: any path from X to Y that starts with an arrow pointing into X.
A Quasi-experiment: an experiment that does not use random assignment conditions.
An inus condition: an insufficient cause by itself. It effectiveness required it to be embedded in a larger set of conditions.
Generalizability: the ability of a model to predict new data. The degree to which it is capable of predicting all potential samples generated by the same process, rather dan to fit only a particular sample of existing data.
Simpson’s paradox: the direction of an association at the population-level may be reversed within the subgroups comprising that population.
The interpretation bias: a bias toward interpretations of data that favour a researcher’s theory, both when the null hypothesis is statistically rejected and when not.
Conservatism: choosing the theoretical explanation consistent with the data that requires the least amount of restructuring of the existing knowledge system.
Methodological (scientific) scepticism: an approach that subjects all knowledge claims to scrutiny with the goal of sorting out true from false claims
Philosophical scepticism: an approach that denies the possibility of knowledge.
This magazine contains all the summaries you need for the course WSRt at the second year of psychology at the Uva.
This is a summary of the articles and reading materials that are needed for the second block in the course WSR-t. This course is given to second year psychology students at the Uva. This block is about analysing and evaluating psychological research. The order in which the
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