This is when a study can be replicated and is consistent.
What is reliability?
100
This is the group from which a sample is selected.
What is the population?
100
This is the process by which participants are put into either an experimental or control group.
What is assignment?
100
This is a statistical measure of a relationship between two variables.
What is correlation?
100
This is a group of correlated data.
What is a scatter plot?
200
This means that every member of the population has an equal chance of being selected.
What is random selection?
200
This is a process that allows a researcher to ensure that the sample represents the population on some criteria.
What is stratified sampling?
200
This is the unconscious tendency for researchers to treat members of the experimental and control groups differently to increase the chance of confirming their hypothesis.
What is experimenter bias?
200
A common one of these are the measures of central tendency.
What is descriptive statistics?
300
This is the only research method that can show a causal relationship.
What is experiment?
300
This is a method followed so that neither the participants nor the researcher are aware of who is in the experimental or control groups while the experiment is going on.
What is double-blind procedure?
300
This is the tendency for subjects to behave in certain ways based on their perception of an experiment.
What is Participant or Response bias?
300
This is a type of descriptive statistical measure that attempts to depict the diversity of the distribution.
What are measures of variability?
400
This is often used to gather opinions or attitudes and for correlational research.
What is the survey method?
400
This method involves observing participants in their natural habitats without intertacting with them.
What is naturalistic observation?
400
This establishes ethical guidelines for psychologists.
What is APA Ethical guidelines for human and animal research?
400
Scientists have decided that 5 percent is the cutoff for this.
What is statistical significance?
500
This is any difference between the experimental and control conditions, expect for the independent variable, that might affect the dependent variable.
What is a confounding variable?
500
This research method is used to get a full, detailed picture of one participant or a small group of participants.
What is the case study?
500
This states that being selected to be in a group of people to participate in a experiment will affect the performance of that group, regardless of what is done to those individuals.
What is the Hawthorne Effect?
500
These can determine whether or not finding can be applied to the larger population from which the sample was selected.