Research Methods 1
The Board that approves the study before it can be conducted
What is IRB (Institutional Review Board)
This many holes are played in an average complete, full round of golf
What is 18
When participants must know that they are involved in research and give consent
What is informed consent.
Researchers want their research to measure what it is meant to (it’s accurate). If it does, the research is
What is valid.
This is the computed measure of how much scores vary around the mean score.
What is standard deviation
The country we know today as Turkey went by a different name during WWI
What is the Ottoman Empire
This descriptive method records behavior in a natural environment
What is naturalistic observation
When participants must be told the purpose of the study and provided with ways to contact the researchers about study results
What is debriefing.
Anything that causes change in the results of the experiment are called
What is confounding variables
This is the % of scores that fall within one standard deviation of the mean in a normal curve.
What is 68%
Jared Leto is known for his acting roles and as the frontman for this alternative rock band that shares the name with one of the celestial bodies in our solar system
What is 30 Seconds to Mars
This is the tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen it.
What is hindsight bias?
All the ethical guidelines that guide psychological experimentation are established by the
What is the APA (American Psychological Association)
When choosing participants for an experiment, they should be placed into 2 groups. Name each group.
What is experimental and control
This is the criteria for a scientific categorization of statistically significant for most psychologists
What is the odds of a result occurring by chance is less than 5%
The Ice Bucket Challenge of 2014 raised awareness for this disease
What is ALS
Name the biggest weakness of case studies.
What is The findings are not always GENERALIZABLE to the entire population.
Name two guidelines for animals that do not apply to humans
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In an experiment, the hypothesis was that eating cookies before the test would increase test scores. Name the independent and dependent variables
What is IV is cookies, DV is test scores
If a standard deviation from a mean of 3 is .5, how many standard deviations is a score of 2 from the mean?
What is 2
The Disney film Aladdin takes place in this fictional Middle Eastern city
What is Agrabah