Glossary C
Glossary C
Control Procedures refer to consistent procedures for giving instructions, scoring responses, and holding all other variables constant except those being systematically varied.
Control questions is a term used in a polygraph examination that refer to questions that almost always provoke anxiety.
Control variable refers to a circumstance of the experiment that the experimenter sets at a particular level and prevents from varying; a potential independent variable that is held constant in an experiment
Please see Test variable.
Control-enhancing interventions is defined as interventions with patients who are awaiting treatment for the purpose of enhancing their perceptions of control over those treatments.
Control/Display Compatibility refers to the degree to which relationships between controls and displays are consistent with user expectations For example, a person may have expectations concerning the movement of a control and its expected effect on a display based on a previously formed stereotype of that movement.
Controllability refers to information that indicates whether the cause of the success (or failure) is something the individual can control or cannot control