Name the study
When comparing two variables that vary together to test whether or not there is a relationship
What is a correlation?
The manipulated factor in a study
What is the independent variable?
Correlation does not imply causation
What is r-statisitcs?
When one variable increases and the other decreases
What is a negative correlation?
Practicing for a short period of time and taking breaks after learning new information
What is the spacing effect?
When people are randomly assigned into groups including the control group.
What is an experiment?
The behavior that is being measured
What is a dependent variable?
Three or more groups are compared to test whether one independent variable is causing a change in the dependent variable
What is one-way ANOVA?
When one variable increases as the second increases
What is a positive correlation?
Enhanced memory resulting from repeatedly retrieving information from memory.
What is the testing effect?
When studying one person in depth through interviews, surveys, and testing to seek an observation
What is a case study?
The people here does not receive any treatment and it is used in comparison
What is a control group?
This test uses a nominal data or ordinal scales and test the evidence of a relationship between two variables
What is a Chi-square?
Rejecting the null when in fact no significant differences were found
What is type I error?
The ability to produce novel and valuable ideas
What is creativity?
Conducted in a laboratory setting or a field setting and it is widely used in the human development field as an effective way to study human behaviors
What is a naturalistic observation?
The process by which small objects become perceptually grouped to form larger objects
What is perceptual organization?
The independent t-test, dependent t-test, and z-score test are typically used to do what
What is hypothesis testing?
This notation is often found to represnt the total numbers of scores in the population
What is capital "N"?
One task we conducted in class was designed to demonstrate spatial attention by using valid, neutral and invalid cues.
What is the Posner Orienting Paradigm or Cuing Task?
Inability to establish a random assignment of participants when an equivalent or non-equivalent groups are formed to test whether the independent variable is causing changes in the dependent variable
What is a quasi- experiment?
When applied to perception, means the meaning of a scene, often related to what is happening within the scene.
What is semantics?
When wanting to know the effect size and whether or not
What is
This difference between the mean of all levels of any one independent variable
What is the main effect?
Groups of neurons or structures that are connected within the nervous system
What is a neural network?