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| Term | Definition |
| Methodological Individualism | 1. Break down phenomena into their smallest parts. 2. Use these to deduce development of more complex phenomena. |
| Methodological Pluralism | No approach is better than another. Multiple views enrich. |
| Mimetic | Exact duplicate. Positivist view that everything can be precisely defined in 'mimetic' statements. |
| Missing data | Cases for which we do not know the proper category into which to place the case. |
| Mode | 1. A descriptive statistic that is a measure of central tendency; it is the score/value that occurs most frequently in a distribution of scores. 2. a term that refers to the central tendency or typical score of a bivariate distribution, specifically the most frequently occurring classification of a variable. For example if you had the values 6, 10, 12, 12, 13, 14, 16 the mode would be 12. |
| Moderator Variable | A moderator variable is one that modifies the relationship between two other variables. If variable X modifies the relationship between variables Y and Z, then there is an interaction between X and Y. In a regression, the interaction between a pair a variables is tested by including the product of the two variables as an additional independent variable. |
| Multistage cluster sample | Type of probability sample in which the population is divided into clusters, and then the clusters are sampled. |
| Multivariate analysis | 1. an examination of the relationship between three or more variables e.g. in this model the analysis using the elaboration model. 2. the analysis of three or more variables simultaneously. |
| Naturalism | The idea that principles of the natural sciences should be used for social research. |
| Naturalistic paradigm | This paradigm assumes that there are multiple interpretations of reality and that the goal of researchers working within this perspective is to understand how individuals construct their own reality within their social context. |
| Negative correlation | A relationship between two variables where higher values on one variable tend to be associated with lower values on the second variable; sometimes referred to as an inverse relationship (e.g. age of non-vintage cars and their market value). |
| Negative Relationship | a relationship is which large values of one variable tend to go with small values of the other variable. |
| Nominal scale | the lowest level of measurement that involves assigning characteristics into categories which are mutually exclusive, but which lack any intrinsic order (e.g. classification by gender or by the colour of a person's hair or eyes) |
| Nominalism | Scientifically valid words have fixed and absolute meanings. To define a word is to fix meaning. The existence of a word does not imply the existence of what it describes. |
| Nomothetic | Constructing generalized models and laws (like universalism). |
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Multiple intelligences- that defines intelligence as not being a single or fixed capacity. The theory offers a range of preferred approaches to learning. They are linguistic, logical-mathematical, spatial, musical, bodily-kinesthetic, interpersonal and intrapersonal. Each one is a system in it"s own right and independent from others, although they do interact. Howard Gardner (1983) |