Experimental Design
The group that receives the treatment in an experiment.
What is the Experimental Group?
A research technique for questioning a representative sample of people.
What is a Survey?
The most frequently occurring score in a distribution.
What is the Mode?
Is it ever okay to lie to a participant?
What is No (Deception)?
The perspective that emphasizes the growth potential of healthy people.
What is Humanistic Psychology?
Selecting participants so that every member of a population has an equal chance of being picked.
What is Random Sampling?
Observing behavior in a naturally occurring situation without manipulation.
What is Naturalistic Observation?
The distance between the highest and lowest scores.
What is the Range?
This must be maintained to ensure a participant's identity is not linked to their data.
What is Confidentiality?
The view that psychology should be an objective science that studies behavior without reference to mental processes.
What is Behaviorism?
Neither the subjects nor the researchers know who is in the control group.
What is a Double-Blind Study?
An in-depth look at a single individual, often used for rare conditions.
What is a Case Study?
A computed measure of how much scores vary around the mean.
What is Standard Deviation?
Participants must be told enough to enable them to choose whether they wish to participate.
What is Informed Consent?
William James's school of thought focused on how mental processes enable us to adapt.
What is Functionalism?
A variable other than the IV that might cause an unwanted change in the DV.
What is a Confounding Variable?
A measure of the extent to which two factors vary together.
What is Correlation?
A bell-shaped curve describes the distribution of many types of data.
What is a Normal Distribution?
The post-experimental explanation of a study to its participants.
What is Debriefing?
The school of thought that used introspection to explore the structure of the mind.
What is Structuralism?
The specific procedure used to measure a variable (e.g., "intelligence" defined as an "IQ score").
What is an Operational Definition?
The tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen it
What is Hindsight bias?
This "p-value" must be less than 0.05 for a result to be considered this
What is Statistically Significant?
The board that reviews research proposals for ethical violations.
What is the Institutional Review Board (IRB)?
The interdisciplinary study of brain activity is linked with cognition.
What is Cognitive Neuroscience?