This informs participants of all the information they would need make a decision on whether or not the want to participate in the study.
What is 'informed consent'?
100
Research method in which information is obtained by asking many individuals a fixed set of questions
What is a survey?
100
A _____ effect is associated with an increase in performance due to repetition of the task?
What is practice?
100
a change in a participant's illness or behavior that results from a belief that the treatment will have an effect, rather than the actual treatment
What is placebo effect?
100
"Do you agree that reckless male teenage drivers are more dangerous than female teenage drivers?" is an example of a _____ question.
What is a loaded question?
200
This is an ethical consideration in which the researcher does not tell the participants the true aim initially.
What is 'deception'?
200
In this experiment design, a comparison is made between two different groups of participants. One group receives the experimental treatment and one group doesn’t.
What is independent-groups design?
200
A _____ effect is associated with the deterioration of performance with the passage of time.
What is fatigue?
200
an experiment where the participants do not know if they have received the treatment or the placebo
What is a single-blind experiment?
200
"Do you agree that elected officials should not be allowed to run for more than two consecutive terms in office?" is an example of a _____ question.
What is negatively worded question?
300
All participants have the right to this, meaning they can leave the experiment if they wish.
What is 'withdrawal'?
300
When the same participants are tested in both the control condition and the experimental condition. In other words, the same participant is tested twice.
What is repeated-measures design?
300
Effect of the previous treatment influences the response of the next treatment
What is carryover effect?
300
An experiment where the participants nor the experiminters know which participants received which treatment
What is a double-blind experiment?
300
"Are these questions annoying and fun" is an example of a __________ question.
What is double-barreled?
400
Psychologists occasionally deceive research participants about the true purpose of an experiment in order to prevent them from doing this.
What is trying to confirm the experimenters' prediction?
400
Elena randomly asks students of a class to taste either Coke or Pepsi. Students rate their liking for the soda they taste on a scale of 1 to 10. This is an example of a _____ design.
What is posttest only?
400
In the context of the repeated measures design, when the sequence of presenting the treatments determines the participants' responses in part, the researcher is dealing with _____.
What are order effects?
400
When an interviewer could subtly bias the respondent's answers by inadvertently showing approval or disapproval of certain answers.
What is interviewer bias?
400
During question construction, writing questions that are easily understood illustrates _____.
What is simplicity?
500
This is a promise or a guarantee from the researcher to keep all information secret unless permission is given by the respondent. The researcher may discuss the information provided. However, the researcher must ensure that no other person will be able to link the information to the respondent.
What is confidentiality?
500
In a _____ design, half the participants receive only a posttest, while the other half receives both a pretest and a posttest.
What is Solomon four-group?
500
To control order effects in a repeated measures design, one should use a(n) _____
What is counterbalancing?
500
When a researcher is influenced if they know what group a participant is in.
What is experimenter bias or expectancy effect?
500
When Edgar responds to the questions in a survey, he answers in a way that would reflect most favorably on him. This is an example of a social desirability __________.