Research Methods
Variables
Bias & Errors
Statistics
Perspectives
100

Watching people in their natural setting without interference.

What is naturalistic observation?

100

The factor that is changed or manipulated in an experiment.

What is the independent variable?

100

The 'I knew it all along' phenomenon.

What is hindsight bias?

100

The difference between the highest and lowest score.

What is range?

100

Depression caused by neurotransmitter imbalance.

What is the biological perspective?

200

A detailed investigation of a single person, group, or event.

What is a case study?

200

The outcome that is measured in an experiment.

What is the dependent variable?

200

Improvement caused by believing you’re getting treatment, not the treatment itself.

What is the placebo effect?

200

The most frequently occurring score in a set of data.

What is mode?

200

Depression caused by negative thought patterns.

What is the cognitive perspective?

300

Collecting self-reported data from a large group of people.

What is a survey?

300

The group that does not receive the treatment, used for comparison.

What is the control group?

300

When a researcher’s expectations influence the study results.

What is experimenter bias?

300

A measure of how spread out scores are around the mean.

What is standard deviation?

300

Depression explained by reinforcement of certain behaviors.

What is the behavioral perspective?

400

A research method that tests cause-and-effect by manipulating variables.

What is an experiment?

400

An outside factor that might influence results and confuse interpretation.

What is a confounding variable?

400

Why we cannot say that correlation means one thing causes another.

What is correlation does not equal causation?

400

A number that shows the strength and direction of a relationship between two variables.

What is a correlation coefficient?

400

Explaining behavior by the influence of groups and culture.

What is the social-cultural perspective?

500

A procedure where each participant has an equal chance of being placed in any group.

What is random assignment?

500

A statement of how a variable will be measured in an experiment.

What is an operational definition?

500

One problem in the bystander effect experiment was exposing people to distress without their consent. This is a what?

What is an ethical concern?

500

About 68% of data falls within one of these around the mean in a normal curve.

What is one standard deviation?

500

Looking at behavior as the result of unconscious conflicts.

What is the psychodynamic perspective?

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