Experiment Vocabulary
Variables and Groups
The Other Methods...
The Pros and Cons
Ethics
100
This is a statement of the results you expect to get.
What is a hypothesis?
100
The factor that the researcher manipulates or changes in a study.
What is the independent variable?
100
This method studies the same group of people over an extended period of time.
What is a longitudinal study?
100
The pro is that behavior studied is completely natural. The con is that the psychologist cannot interact with subjects.
What is naturalistic observation?
100
This is the organization that set up the ethics of psychological research.
What is the APA?
200
People on whom research is conducted.
Who are subjects?
200
The group on which the critical part of the experiment is performed.
What is the experimental group?
200
This method looks at different age groups at the same time in order to understand changes that occur during the life span.
What is a cross-sectional study?
200
The cons to this method are that it's hard to judge subjects' honesty and the psychologist's biases can get in the way of the way during interpretatio of results.
What is an interview?
200
Describe what the first ethic says about participation.
What is subjects must be allowed to decline participation or withdraw at any time?
300
A study that is done away from the laboratory.
What is a field study?
300
The factor in a study that changes as a result of changes to the independent variable.
What is the dependant variable?
300
This method involves developing information about a person’s long-term background to find out why they are the way they are today.
What is a case study?
300
The pro is that the psychologist can help treat their patient. The con is that the results cannot be used to treat everyone.
What is a case study?
300
Finish this sentence: Information obtained about a subject while conducting research must remain. . .
What is confidential?
400
A “medicine” that has no active ingredients and works by suggestion.
What is a placebo?
400
The group that does not participate in the critical part of the experiment.
What is the control group?
400
This method involves studying people face to face and asking questions.
What is an interview?
400
The pro to this method is that it removes all personal bias. The con is that it cannot measure complex human traits.
What is a psychology test?
400
The last ethic describes a particularly important job of researchers. Tell me what this important job is.
What is to inform subjects of any risks they might incur, both physically and mentally, during the course of the study? What is to minimize risks that come up in the process?
500
A study during which neither the experimenter nor the participants know to which group they belong.
What is a double-blind study?
500
Tell me a proper hypothesis given these variables: IV: Sleep; DV: Test Performance.
What is if a student gets 8 hours of sleep, then they will perform better on a test than students who get 7 or less hours of sleep?
500
This is a method of research that involves asking subjects questions about their feelings, opinions or behavior patterns, sometims over the phone or through the mail.
What is a survey?
500
The pro to this method is that it is the only way to conduct research on some topics. The con is that it is time consuming and expensive.
What are longitudinal studies?
500
Describe how most psychologists feel about the use of animals in research.
What is they support it if the animals are not harmed or killed in the process?
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