Statistics
The average
What is the mean?
The research method that places participants in different groups including a control group.
What is experimental?
How a variable is measured or defined
What is operational definition?
The middle number
What is the median
The participants are told about the experiment prior to agreeing to participate
What is informed consent?
The smallest number subtracted from the largest number
What is the range?
The research method that gathers information by watching participants and quantifying a factor (usually wanting it to be naturalistic).
What is observation?
A third factor that is affecting both variables
What is third variable?
The shape of the normal curve
What is a bell (bell curve)?
Publishing a list of participants names with the results of a research study violates this ethical principle
What is confidentiality?
Asymmetry of distribution, follow the tail negative or positive
What is skewness?
The research method that measures a relationship between variables, but you cannot use to determine cause and effect.
What is correlational?
The treatment given to the experimental group
What is the independent variable?
The most frequent score
What is the mode?
Parental authorization for those 12-18
What is informed assent?
Find the mean of the following numbers 5, 6, 12, 17
What is 10?
Type of descriptive research method that provides an in-depth picture of a single subject
What is a case study?
How the participants respond to the Independent Variable
What is dependent variable?
Pearson r, closest to 1 is strongest
What is correlation coefficient?
Humans come before science
What is protection from harm?
Strength of the relationship between variables
What is effect size?
The research method that combines information from multiple studies that already existed.
What is meta analysis?
Other factors that affect the dependent variable other than the intended treatment
What is confounding variable?
A measure of variability of the scores
What is standard deviation?
If a study requires you to deceive participants, this must follow the study ASAP
What is debriefing?