exam 1 review
The scientific study of behavior and mental process.
What is psychology?
A type of review in which the statistical results of past research are synthesized but no original data were collected or analyzed?
What is meta-analysis
Group that is given the treatment?
What is the treatment group.
The difference between the individual’s score and the mean of the distribution, divided by the standard deviation of the distribution:
z = (X−M)/SD ?
What is a z-score.
The probability of the sample result or a more extreme result if the null hypothesis were true?
What is a P value.
The 3 goals of science?
What is describe, predict, explain.
Report of the method and results of an original research study?
what is primary source.
Data that is usually nonnumerical and therefore cannot be analyzed using statistical techniques?
What is qualitative research.
Research that lacks the manipulation of an independent variable?
What is nonexperimental studies.
Use this when you have 3 or more groups?
What is ANOVA.
Intuition, Authority, Rationalisum, Empericisum, the Scientific Method.
What is the five methods of knowing
Interprets and analyzes a primary source?
what is secondary source
Data consisting of numbers that are analyzed using statistical techniques?
What is quantitative research.
The measure of relationship strength (or effect size) for relationship between quantitative variables. It is the mean cross-product of the two z-scores
What is pearsons r.
Random variability in a statistic from sample to sample?
What is the replication crisis.
3 features of science?
What is systematic empiricism, empirical questions, public knowledge.
Written by experts in a particular field?
What is a scholarly source
When participants are randomly assigned to different conditions of the independent variable?
What is random assignment.
A mixture of qualitative and quantitative research?
What is mixed methods research.
When there are more than two groups or conditions means to be compared, the most common null hypothesis test is?
What is ANOVA.
what does APA stand for and what division are we on
What is American Physiological Association 7th edition.
Written by someone who is not a professional in that field?
What is a non scholarly source
A group that is given a placebo?
What is a control group.
A graph that uses dots?
What is a scatter plot.
The correlational statistical test used only when two variables are both interval/ratio level of measurement?
What is Persons r.