Vocabulary
Hindsight Bias
What is the tendency to think they knew it all along.
Frequency Distribution
What is how many had what and so on.
A Common Saying
What is correlation does not imply causation
Ethical Considerations
What is, the appropriate and inappropriate ways to conduct research.
Psychologists generally prefer the experimental method to other research methods because
What is experiments can show cause and effect relationships
Theory
What is the aim to explain some phenomenon allowing researchers to generate testable hypothesis'.
Descriptive Statistics
What is describing a set of data.
Correlation
What is a relationship between two variables without ascribing cause.
What is clear scientific purpose, important scientific question, best suited animal, acquire subjects legally.
Some psychologists consider Stanley Milgram's obediance studies to be unethical because of which ethical consideration?
What is risk of long term harm
Field Experiments
What is experiments conducted out in the world.
Central Tendency
What is attempting to mark the center of a distribution.
Positive Correlation
What is a presence of one thing predicts the presence of another.
No Coercion
What is participation should be voluntary
One principal difference between the ethical guidelines for human and animal research
What is animals can be placed at much greater physical risk.
Social Desirabilty
What is the tendency to try and give answers that reflect well upon them.
Mean
What is adding up all scores and dividing by total number of scores total.
What is the presence of one thing predicts the absence of another.
Informed Consent
What is knowing they are involved in research and gave their consent.
Median for 6,2,9,4,7,3
What is 5
Counterbalancing
What is using participants as their own control group.
Extreme Scores
What is an outlier.
Correlation Coefficients
What is ranging fro -1 and +1.
Risk
What is keeping participants out of significant mental and physical risk.
Sandy scores a perfect 100 on a test everyone else fails, it would be a ? on a distribution graph
What is Positively Skewed