Ethics
Protecting participants' personal data and ensuring it is not shared in a way that identifies them.
What is Confidentiality?
A subset of individuals selected from the population.
What is a sample?
The average of a set of numbers, calculated by adding them up and dividing by the total count.
What is the mean?
What comes first? Writing the article or conducting an experiment?
Conducting an experiment
Course number for this course
What is 112?
The psychological study where volunteers played roles of guards and prisoners in a simulated prison; it quickly escalated into abusive behavior. It was unethical due to lack of informed consent, psychological harm to participants, and inadequate oversight.
What was the Stanford Prison Experiment?
The type of study where the independent variable is manipulated by the experimentor.
The r value that would indicate no correlation.
A testable prediction about the relationship between variables.
What is a hypothesis?
Approximately how many students go to Binghamton?
18,800 (accept + or - 2,000)
The process by which someone voluntarily agrees to participate in a study after being fully informed about the risks, benefits, and purpose.
What is Informed Consent?
The limitation of correlational studies compared to experimental studies
What is you can't determine a cause-and-effect relationship between the independent and dependent variables?
The statistical test used for two numerical variables.
The section that explains how the study was done, including participants, materials, and procedure.
Is hair whorl direction related to sexual orientation? (according to research review 1)
No
Trials related to medical experiments conducted on concentration camp inmates during WWII.
What were the Nuremberg Trials?
The hypothesis that says the independent variable will NOT affect the dependent variable
What is the null hypothesis?
If the p value is less than 0.05, it means this.
What is there was a significant effect?
The first section of scientific articles that is a short summary of a research paper, covering the main question, methods, results, and conclusions.
What is an abstract?
The graduate program I am in.
What is a Clinical Psychology PhD program?
The organization with the authority to determine what human subjects research can be conducted at a university
What is the Institutional Review Board (IRB)?
A variable that affects the dependent variable other than the independent variable, making it hard to tell what’s really causing the effect.
What is a confounding variable?
The statistic used for correlation.
What is r?
This term means that a study or article has been evaluated and critiqued by experts in the field before being published.
What is peer-reviewed?
The scientific name for a BearCat
What is a Binturong?