Knowledge gained through a combination of empiricism and logical reasoning.
What is science?
100
A government initiated study that examined a sexually transmitted disease over the course of fifty year period.
What is the Tuskegee Syphilis study?
100
When a measurement yields consistent results.
What is reliability?
100
Believed to be influenced by other factors in an experiment.
What is the depended variable?
100
Research design in which a researcher watches how many men or women hold the door open for people behind them at a busy law firm.
What is naturalistic observation?
200
Superstition, intuition, rationalism, or empiricism.
What is not science?
200
The need for people to consent to a study without over coercion, subtle coercion or excessive inducements.
What is voluntary participation?
200
Determined by administering the same measure to the same participants on two or more occasions.
What is test-retest reliability?
200
Variable type that had discrete categories and is categorical in nature.
What is qualitative data?
200
Research design in which the researcher studies a secluded tribe in Central America to observe their right-of-passage rituals.
What is a case study design?
300
Seeking knowledge for knowledge sake versus doing research to change lives.
What is the difference between basic and applied research?
300
What is the following scenario an example of:
A researcher tells participants that they are examining their puzzle-solving skills in a group when they are actually measuring their racism based on interaction with ethnically diverse confederates.
What is active deception?
300
Extent that an instrument measures what it is designed to measure and accurately performs what it is created to perform.
What is validity?
300
Data with rank-ordered categories and are not numeric in nature.
What is ordinal data?
300
Nonequivalent control groups, history effect, maturation effect, testing effect, morality, experimenter effect, or floor/ceiling effect.
What are confounds?
400
Has clearly determined terminology, quantifiability, highly controlled conditions, replicability, predictability and testability.
What is "real" science?
400
Composed of faculty and community members that must approve a study before it is ran.
What is the institutional review board (IRB)?
400
Determined by splitting the items on a measure into equivalent halves and correlating scores.
What is split-half reliability?
400
Interval and ratio data.
What is quantitative?
400
Research design in which the researcher studies the effect of cat owning on a persons emotions.
What is a quasi-experiment?
500
To describe human behavior, make detailed records of observations, to understand, to predict behavior and to control conditions.
What are the goals of psychological science?
500
Research must disclose any potential risks, protect participants from risk, justify any remaining risk, obtain informed consent and debrief participants.
What are the APA ethical guidelines?
500
Extent to which findings from an experiment can be generalized beyond the scope of the specific experiment.
What is external or ecological validity?
500
Four types of measurement scales that variables can be measured by.
What is nominal, ordinal, interval and ratio?
500
Independent variables, dependent variables, extraneous variables, and equivalent participant characteristics.