Key Science Skills
What is the name for a prediction that states what a researcher expects to find.
What is a hypothesis?
Involves a participant being able to discontinue their involvement in an experiment at any time during or after the conclusion of an experiment, without penalty.
What is Withdrawal rights?
An investigation where the researcher manipulates the IV to measure the DV.
What is an Experiment?
Behaviour processes
What is Physical, external reactions to our environment.
The entire group of people a researcher wants to study.
What is Population?
This type of variable is the one the researcher changes to determine the effect on another variable?
What is an Independent variable?
Keeping participant information private.
What is Confidentiality?
A measurement that is close to the true value.
What is Accuracy?
Mental processes
What is thoughts, feelings, perceptions and memory?
A smaller group selected from the population to take part in a study.
What is a Sample?
This variable is measured to see how it responds to changes.
What is the Dependant variable?
The requirement that participants must agree to take part and understand the nature and purpose of the experiment.
What is Informed consent?
Measurements that are consistent and repeatable.
What is Precision?
How does psychologist treat patients.
What is talk therapy/psychotherapy, counselling and psychological testing?
Choosing participants who are easiest to access.
What is Convenience sampling?
What is it called when researchers keep everything except the IV the same.
What is Controlled conditions?
When researchers hide some details from participants for the experiment to work.
What is Deception?
A variable other than the IV that could influence the DV if not controlled.
What is an Extraneous variable?
Some psychologists help teachers understand how students learn best.
What is an Educational psychologist?
Every person in the population has an equal chance of being chosen.
What is Random sampling?
The group that does not receive the treatment in an experiment is called what.
What is a Control group?
The meeting at the end of a study where participants are told the true purpose.
What is Debriefing?
An extraneous variable that actually did affect the DV and ruined the results.
What is a Cofounding variable?
Define Psychology
Psychology is the scientific study of human behavior and mental processes.
The sample is split into subgroups (e.g., gender, age) and participants are chosen in the correct proportions.
What is Stratified sampling?