Nomological network

Assessment | Biopsychology | Comparative | Cognitive | Developmental | Language | Individual differences | Personality | Philosophy | Social | Methods | Statistics | Clinical | Educational | Industrial | Professional items | World psychology | Statistics: Scientific method · Research methods · Experimental design · Undergraduate statistics courses · Statistical tests · Game theory · Decision theory Nomological network ("lawful network", the term "nomology" being derived from the Greek, meaning "lawful") is a representation of the concepts (constructs) of interests in a study, their observable manifestations, and the interrelationships among and between these. It was Cronbach and Meehl's view of construct validity that in order to provide evidence that a measure has construct validity, a nomological network has to be developed for its measure.  The elements of a nomological network are: Must have at least two constructs; Theoretical propositions, specifying linkages between constructs: "As age increases, memory loss increases". Correspondence rules, allowing a construct to be measured. Operationalization: "Age is measured by asking "how old are you?" Empirical constructs or variables that can actually be measured. These are operationalized theoretical constructs. Empirical linkages: Hypotheses before data collection. Empirical generalization after data collection. This psychology-related article is a stub. You can help the Psychology Wiki by expanding it. References Cronbach and Meehl (1955) External links http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/kb/nomonet.htm This page uses Creative Commons Licensed content from Wikipedia (view authors).