Review Questions -- APLS 110 Test II

This test will be all short answer, so I think the best way I can help you review is to give you the key terms and ideas that will be covered on the test.

replication
goals of science (know all 3!)
steps of the scientific research process (you had better be able to list and explain each one!!!)
nature of scientific explanations: conditional, probabilistic, open
scientific creationism (why not really scientific?)
independent, dependent, and intervening variables (diagram and have example of each)
reciprocal relationships (diagram and have example)
spurious relationships (diagram and have example)
reliability
validity
levels of measurement (be able to identify examples, like annual income is interval, or ethnicity is
    nominal)
statistics, definition of each and types of: descriptive and inferential
measures of central tendency and how to calculate each (mean, median, mode, percentile)
measures of dispersion (range, percentile)
bar graphs for frequency distributions and percentage distributions
factors that explain turnout in elections (that is, what kinds of people will more likely vote)
factors that explain voting choice (that is, who one will likely vote for)
political efficacy
third parties (know the roles they play)
party id as a psychological filter
ideology and American citizens
valence issues (definition and examples)
sampling error and sample size
sample bias (like convenience samples, and the Literary Digest Survey of 1936)
question bias
interviewer bias
straw polls
random samples (versus convenience samples)
random digit dialing
systematic sampling
filter questions
how to read a crosstabulation