Research Basics
The careful, systematic study of behavior and mental processes.
What is Psychology?
Research menthods involving an in-depth study of one person or a small group of people
What is a case study?
What is an operational definition?
The consistency of a research study or test
What is reliability?
The committee that reviews research to ensure participants are protected
What is the Institutional Review Board (IRB)?
An educated guess or prediction that an be tested.
What is a hypothesis?
Research method that involves asking people questions about their thoughts or behaviors
What is a survey?
Assigning participants randomly to groups to reduce bias
What is random assignment?
What a test actually measures what it is supposed to measure
What is validity?
The principle that participants must be fully informed and agree to take part
What is informed consent?
The factor a researcher manipulates in an experiment.
What is the independent variable?
Research method that involves observing without interfering
What is naturalistic observation?
The group in an experiment that does not receive treatment and is used for comparison
What is the control group?
If results can be applied to the larger population
What is generability?
Explaining the purpose and procedures of a study to participants afterward
What is debriefing?
The factor that is measured in an experiment.
What is the dependent variable?
Research that looks at how strongly two variables are related
What is correlational research?
A factor other than the independent variable that may influence results
What is a confounding variable?
What is replicable?
Ethical rule that participants' identities and responses must remain private
What is confidentiality?
The group that receives the treatment or manipulation in an experiment
What is the experimental group?
Research method that uses controlled variables to determine cause-and-effect
What is an experiment?
When participants and researchers do not know who is in the experimental or control group
What is a double-blind study?
When a participant changes behavior because they know they are being observed
What is the Hawthorne effect?
The guideline that harm must be minimized and benefits must outweigh risks
Wat is the principle of beneficence.