Scientific Understanding
What is intuition?
What is a gut feeling or belief based on personal/anecdotal experience
What is program evaluation?
What is research evaluating social reforms, programs, or innovations
Does correlation equal causation?
What is no: correlation shows association.
Why is ethics important in behavioral research?
What is ethics should guide conceptualization, planning, execution, and evaluation research.
What should an informed consent form include?
What is an illusory correlation?
What is believing two events are related because they stand out and occur together when they may not actually be related.
What is basic research addresses fundamental questions about behavior while applied research addresses practical and real world problems.
What is covariation?
What is the cause and effect change together
What was Milgram's study designed to examine?
What is obedience to authority
What is active deception?
What is researchers intentionally give participants false or misleading information
What is empiricism?
What is the idea that knowledge comes from observation
What is the progression from research question to prediction?
What is General → specific → directly testable.
What are the 3 requirements for causation?
Covariation + temporal precedence + elimination of alternative explanations
What is major ethical guidelines for behavioral and medical research involving participants
What is expedited review?
What is review for minimal risk research that doesn't fit an exempt category
What are the 4 characteristics of scientific inquiry?
What is data plays a central role, scientists are not alone, science is adversarial, evidence does not rely solely on authority it is peer reviewed
What are two common sources of research ideas?
What is Common sense and past research
If loneliness is proposed to cause sleep disturbance, what is the dependent variable?
What is loneliness
What are the 3 Belmont principles?
Beneficence, respect for persons, and justice
What two ideas help determine whether something is research?
What is systematic investigation and intent to produce generalizable knowledge.
What is pseudoscience?
Something that uses scientific-sounding language without scientific evidence.
What is the picture superiority effect?
What is pictures are generally remembered better than words
What is the key difference between experimental and nonexperimental research?
What are the 5 APA ethical principals?
What is debriefing?
What is explaining the true purpose and important details of the study after participation