What is the educated guess in an experiment? It is formatted in If, Then format.
What is Hypothesis
100
What is the method of research used by researchers to answer questions about cause and effect? Hint: Contains IV, DV, control group, etc.
What is Experiment
100
In an experiment, it is the treatment or substance that has no effect apart from the person's belief in it. For example: Person is given a sugar pill and they believe it cures their headache.
What is a Placebo
100
Ater one has agreed to smaller requests, one tends to agree with larger requests. What is this social behavior called?
What is Foor-in-the-Door Effect
100
An experiment in which neither the participant nor the researcher knows whether the participant has recieved the treatment or the placebo
What is Double Blind Study
200
In an experiment, what variable is manipulated by researchers so they can determine its effect on the DV?
What is Independent Variable
200
What is a series of questions people are asked relating to a particular subject? Hint: We took these questionnare type things in the semester about our personality.
What is Survey
200
What are the two different types of survey?
What is Written Questionnares, Interviews
200
People tend to choose other people as friends or partners similar to themselves in attractiveness and attitudes. What is this social behavior called?
What is Matching Hypothesis
200
When participants in a study do not know whether they are part of the experimental or control group. Hint: Not knowing is like being blind and their in a study.
What is Single Blind Study
300
In an experiment, what is the variable that is the result of the manipulation or the IV?
What is Dependent Variable
300
What is the method of research in which an in-depth investigation of an individual or small group is done? Hint: Social workers use these to review the past of their client.
What is Case Study
300
What are the disadvantages of case studies?
What is people might distort pasts, or do not remember past events
300
What is the sharing, or diffusion, of responibility for a decision or behavior among members of a group?
What is Diffusion of Responsibility
300
What is an extremely time-consuming and expensive method of observation which involves selecting a group of participants, then observing them for LONG periods of time?
What is Longitudinal Research
400
In an experiment, what is the name of the goup that is experimented on? Hint: Opposite of Control Group
What is Experimental Group
400
What kind of research method involves observing other people or animals at a distance? Hint: They are observed in their "natural habitat", no encounters with researcher.
What is Naturalistic Observation
400
What are the disadvantages of naturalistic observation?
What is the researcher cannot ask questions or ask the person to exibit a certain behavior
400
Amy has her purse stolen on the streets of New York. Even thought there are many people around her walking around, know one stops to help. What social behavior is she experiencing?
What is Bystander Effect
400
What is a method of observation in which one selects a sample that includes people of different ages then compare behavior? Hint: They CROSS observations of the different age groups.
What is Cross Sectional Research
500
Debbie did an experiment on whether soda affects the growth of plants. She added soda to one set of plants, and added water to the other set of plants. What is the set of plants with just water in the experiment? Hint: Used as a constant to compare to the goup experiment on.
What is Control Group
500
What are the four methods of research?
Hints: Social Worker
"Natural Habitat"
Questionnare
Cause and Effect
What is Case Study, Naturalistic Observation, Survey, and Experiment?
500
What behavior did Milgram discover in his test in which the teachers were willing to continue with the test because of to the researcher?
What is Obedience
500
Luke is with his group for an english project. He decided to not work since there are other members in the group that will take care of it. What social behavior is Luke experiencing?
What is Social Loafing
500
What is to change one's behavior in accordance with generally accepted standards? The person that discovered this behavior is Solomon Asch. Hint: fitting in, conforming to society's standards