Participants must be informed about the nature of the study and agree to participate.
What is informed consent?
100
This means the research does what it claims to do.
What is validity?
100
The variable that causes a change in the other variable.
What is an independent variable?
200
The group whose behavior the researcher wishes to investigate.
What is the target population?
200
A sample of whoever happens to be there and agrees to participate.
What is an opportunity sample?
200
All the information that is obtained in a study must be confidential.
What is confidentiality?
200
This means the study represents what happens in real life.
What is ecological validity?
200
The variable that is measured after the manipulation of another variable.
What is the dependent variable?
300
The step-by-step process used by the researcher to carry out a study.
What is the procedure?
300
A sample made up of volunteers.
What is a self-selected sample?
300
Sometimes a researcher does not want the participants to know the exact aim of a study because it could affect the results, so they lie about the true purpose of the study.
What is deception?
300
This means the research is relevant to other cultures.
What is cross-cultural validity?
300
Undesirable variables that influence the relationship between the variables researchers are interested in.
What are confounding variables?
400
These state how the researcher interpreted the data that were collected.
What are the findings?
400
A sample in which participants recruit other participants from among their friends and acquaintances.
What is a snowball sample?
400
At the end of all studies, the true aims and purpose of the research must be revealed to the participants.
What is debriefing?
400
This means that the results can be replicated.
What is reliability?
400
This means that variables must be written in such a way that it is clear what is being measured.
What is operationalization?
500
This refers to how a theory or empirical study is used.
What is application?
500
A sample in which every member of the target population has an equal chance of being selected.
What is a random sample?
500
At the beginning of any study, participants should be told that they have the right to leave the study at any time, and that they can remove their data at the end of the study if they wish.
What is withdrawal from a study?
500
When a study is carried out in a research lab, it lacks this kind of validity.
What is ecological validity?
500
This kind of confounding variable occurs when participants act differently simply because they know they are in an experiment.