Manipulation checks

Question 1

What is a manipulation check?

Answer 1

a test of what a stimuli is, not what it does

Question 2

What is construct validity?

Answer 2

Construct validity is about how well a test measures the concept it was designed to evaluate

Question 3

What is face validity?

Answer 3

• the extent to which a test appears to measure what it claims to measure based on face value.
• it’s the least sophisticated measure of validity and does not require any statistical analysis

Question 4

What is a manipulation check?

Answer 4

• used to assess the effectiveness of a manipulation on the participants.
• verifies whether the manipulated IV has successfully influenced the experimental conditions and elicited the desired change.

Question 5

What is a pilot study?

Answer 5

test run of experiment where manipulation is checked without interfering with experiment

Question 6

What is the purpose of manipulation checks in survey experiments?

Answer 6

• important because subjects often take surveys away from researchers
• can work as attention checks in surveys

Question 7

What is a nomological network?

Answer 7

a representation of the concepts of interest in a study, their observable manifestations, and the relationships between them

Question 8

What are mediators?

Answer 8

Psychological states that link the cause (manipulation) to the effect (outcome)

Question 9

What are moderators?

Answer 9

explain conditions of interaction between a third variable of the IV that influences DV

Question 10

What is Ad hoc creation?

Answer 10

most manipulations were created on the fly for specific studies without prior validation