Something in a experiment that is manipulated by researchers.
What is indpendent variable?
100
Pam is in a group with three other students, but she never participates in her share of the project.
What is a social loafer?
100
Study where participants don't know what group they are in
What is single-blind study?
100
People are asked to respond to a series of questions about a particular subject.
What is a survey?
100
People feel less responsible for doing something when the effort is shared among people in a group.
What is diffusion of responsibility?
200
The result of the manipulation.
What is the dependent variable?
200
Mitchell makes an educated guess about the growth of his plants and the effect different colored lights have on it.
What is a hypothesis?
200
Study where participants and persons directly involved with the experiment don't know who's in which group.
What is double-blind study?
200
An in-depth investigation of a certain group
What is a case-study?
200
The social phenomenon in which research shows that people are less likely to hel someone/give aid to someone when other people are present.
What is the bystander effect?
300
Group of people being experimented on.
What is the experimental group?
300
Survey, case study, naturalistic, experiment, longitudinal research.
What is methods of research?
300
Each participant in the experiment took the role of a "teacher" who would then deliver a shock to the "student" every time an incorrect answer was produced. As the experiment progressed the participant would plead to be released while the "teacher" was instructed by the experimentor to continue.
What is Stanley Miligram/obedience?
300
Observing daily lives of people/animals
What is naturalistic observation?
300
Making an initial smaller request before making a larger request
What is foot-in-the-door effect?
400
Treatment or substances that has no effect apart from a person's belief in it.
What is the placebo effect?
400
How the amount of hours spent studying relates to the wellness of a student's grade.
What is correlation?
400
Used to learn about human behavior.
What is testing?
400
Used to answer questions about cause and effect situations.
What is an experiment?
400
The tendency for people to choose friends and lovers that are similar to themselves in attractiveness.
What is matching hypothesis?
500
Method of research that uses a variety of participents from key ages.
What is cross-sectional?
500
As stress levels increase in an individuals life the immune systems defenses decreases
What is a negative correlation?
500
Students were told they were participating in a "vision test". Unbeknownst to the subject, the other particpanhts in the experiment were all confederates(assistants of the experimenter). It was used to test the extent to which social pressure from a majority group could affect a person to conform.