Psychology is a Science
Generating Research Questions
Defining and Measuring Variables
Threats to Validity
Ethics of Human Research
100
It is one of the four canons of science that states that theories must be capable of being proven wrong.
What is falsifiability
100
These are used to test the boundary conditions of a theory.
What are hypotheses
100
Blood pressure, MRI results, and testosterone levels are all examples of this modality of measurement.
What are physiological measures
100
Correlational and non-experimental research are high in this type of validity.
What is external validity
100
This is the committee that reviews research protocols to determine if the knowledge gained from a study outweighs the risks to the participants.
What is the Institutional Review Board.
200
It is the method of knowing that scientists place at the top of their list.
What is empiricism
200
In a study of how exposure to domestic violence and violent television influence bullying behavior in adolescents, this is the dependent variable.
What is bullying behavior
200
False memory will be assessed by totaling the number of critical lures recalled by the participants. If false memory is a construct, the latter part of the preceding sentence is illustrating this...
What is an operational definition
200
Highly controlled lab experiments are high in this type of validity.
What is internal validity
200
This is when researchers withhold information from participants rather than actively lying to them.
What is passive deception
300
It is the process by which scientists present their research to the public for criticism and replication
What is peer review
300
Since psychologist cannot always predict human behavior, they are content developing these.
What are theories
300
If you take a personality test and one time it tells you that you are neurotic, and the next time it tells you that you are laid back, this test would be low in this.
What is test-retest reliability.
300
Most research studies rely on this sampling method.
What is convenience sampling
300
This is one of the three basic principles of the Belmont report which states that researchers should do no harm to participants, minimize risks, and maximize possible benefits.
What is beneficence
400
Through his use of case studies and introspection over empirical studies, this person has given psychology a bad reputation.
Who is Freud
400
This is the term for the idea that human behavior is multiply determined.
What is equifinality
400
A scale that ranges from 0 to 5 with the anchors 'strongly agree' on one end and 'strongly disagree' on the other end is an example of this.
What is a Likert scale
400
Playing violent video games is associated with aggression, therefore playing violent video games causes aggression. This incorrect assumption is a demonstration of this...
What is the directionality problem
400
This 1963 study, in which participants delivered what they thought were painful shocks to confederates when instructed by an experimenter in a white lab coat, called into question the ethical practices of psychological studies at the time.
What is the Milgram obedience study
500
Attributing consciousness to my rat in PSYC 1010 is a violation of this canon of science.
What is parsimony (Occam's razor)
500
This type of technique came in handy when a psychologist developed a research question after observing the battered women usually stay with their abusers.
What is the inductive technique
500
This type of validity addresses how well our operational definition matches our hypothetical variable of interest.
What is construct validity
500
This is the problem that arises when participants are different in some characteristic, creating a biased sample so that it is difficult to generalize the findings of a study.
What is selection bias
500
If I coerce an individual into participating in my study, I violated this issue discussed in the APA Ethics Code.
What is voluntary participation/informed consent
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