Research Methods
Watching people in their natural setting without interference.
What is naturalistic observation?
The factor that is changed or manipulated in an experiment.
What is the independent variable?
The 'I knew it all along' phenomenon.
What is hindsight bias?
The difference between the highest and lowest score.
What is range?
Depression caused by neurotransmitter imbalance.
What is the biological perspective?
A detailed investigation of a single person, group, or event.
What is a case study?
The outcome that is measured in an experiment.
What is the dependent variable?
Improvement caused by believing you’re getting treatment, not the treatment itself.
What is the placebo effect?
The most frequently occurring score in a set of data.
What is mode?
Depression caused by negative thought patterns.
What is the cognitive perspective?
Collecting self-reported data from a large group of people.
What is a survey?
The group that does not receive the treatment, used for comparison.
What is the control group?
When a researcher’s expectations influence the study results.
What is experimenter bias?
A measure of how spread out scores are around the mean.
What is standard deviation?
Depression explained by reinforcement of certain behaviors.
What is the behavioral perspective?
A research method that tests cause-and-effect by manipulating variables.
What is an experiment?
An outside factor that might influence results and confuse interpretation.
What is a confounding variable?
Why we cannot say that correlation means one thing causes another.
What is correlation does not equal causation?
A number that shows the strength and direction of a relationship between two variables.
What is a correlation coefficient?
Explaining behavior by the influence of groups and culture.
What is the social-cultural perspective?
A procedure where each participant has an equal chance of being placed in any group.
What is random assignment?
A statement of how a variable will be measured in an experiment.
What is an operational definition?
One problem in the bystander effect experiment was exposing people to distress without their consent. This is a what?
What is an ethical concern?
About 68% of data falls within one of these around the mean in a normal curve.
What is one standard deviation?
Looking at behavior as the result of unconscious conflicts.
What is the psychodynamic perspective?