Because Science
This is a statement that describes general principles about how variables are related to each other.
What is a Theory?
This Belmont principle involves selecting participants from the same group of individuals who will potentially benefit from the research
What is Justice?
One issue with Benjamin Rush’s experience with bloodletting is that he didn’t include any of these groups that don’t receive the treatment.
What are comparison/ control groups?
Given that many psychological variables are conceptual and abstract, a researcher must concretely measure or manipulate a variable in terms of this.
What is an operational definition?
67% of adults enjoy reading children’s books” is an example of this type of claim
What is a frequency claim?
A single theory can lead to a large number of these predictions about the outcome of a study.
What is a hypothesis?
Given that this Belmont principle involves treating individuals as autonomous agents, informed consent is important in research involving human participants
What is Respect for Persons?
One problem with relying on our experience is that there are often these types of variables that are also changing with the independent variable
What are confounding variables?
This scale of measurement with equally sized intervals has a zero value that represents an absence of what is being measured.
What is the ratio scale
A correlational study may support this type of claim about the relationship between variables.
What is an association claim?
If your data do not match your hypothesis, either your theory should be revised or this needs to be improved
What is research design?
This “R” of the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals directs researchers to modify procedures to minimize or eliminate animal distress.
What is refinement?
This bias involves both focusing on what is readily available and failing to think about what we cannot see.
What is the present/present bias?
When coding college major with numbers for data entry purposes (for example, Psychology = 1, Biology = 2, and so on), this scale of measurement is being used
What is nominal?
If there are concerns about whether a manipulation actually altered the variable in question as intended, this validity is being questioned.
What is construct validity?
The fact that psychological science is this refers to fact that conclusions are drawn from direct, formal observation.
What is empirical?
This committee is responsible for ensuring that animal research is done ethically and also monitors the care and treatment of animals.
What is IACUC?
Cherry-picking the evidence such that we only seek and accept information that supports what we already think is an example of this type of bias.
What is confirmation bias?
Of the three common types of measures, an IQ test is an example of this.
What is an observational (or behavioral) measure?
This validity involves generalizability.
What is external validity?
This research approach involves understanding what is learned from basic research and directly applying those findings to the real-world
What is Translational Research?
By completely making up data and results, Diedrick Staepel engaged in this form of fraud.
What is data fabrication?
This mental shortcut may explain why individuals tend to overestimate the likelihood of plane crashes and shark attacks
What is the availability heuristic?
Although this is necessary for validity, it alone is not sufficient for validity.
What is reliability?
Random assignment is used to enhance this validity
What is internal validity?