A researcher must obtain this in writing from their participants before conducting an experiment.
What is (informed) consent?
100
This type of experimental design includes asking many individuals – person to person, by phone, mail, email, online – to answer a fixed set of questions about particular subjects.
What is a survey?
100
This experiment involved John B. Watson, classical conditioning, and a baby who was conditioned to be afraid of white rats, among other animals and furry objects.
What is the Little Albert Experiment?
100
This is an educated prediction, based on a theory or question, that can be tested using experiments, surveys, observations, or other experimental designs.
What is a hypothesis?
100
This word means association, it is a measure of the extent to which two variables are related. It can be positive or negative.
What is correlation?
200
Researchers should never cause physical or psychological ______ to their participants.
What is harm?
200
This strategy for scientific investigation identifies cause-and-effect relationships by following a set of rules and guidelines.
What is an experiment?
200
Harry Harlow sought to study infant attachment in an experiment using ___________.
What is monkeys?
200
This is the variable in the experiment that is manipulated or changed.
What is independent variable?
200
This type of bias involves noticing and looking for what confirms one's beliefs, and to ignore, not look for, or undervalue the relevance of what contradicts one's beliefs.
What is confirmation bias?
300
This association has published a code of ethics and conduct for psychologists to follow when doing research.
What is the American Psychological Association? (APA)
300
This type of experimental design focuses on an in-depth analysis of the thoughts, feelings, beliefs, or behaviors of a single person.
What is a case study?
300
The Milgram experiment sought to study _______________. Participants were instructed to shock a participant in another room if they got an answer wrong on a test, even though the shocks went up to a lethal dosage.
What is obedience?
300
This is the variable in an experiment that is being observed or tested.
What is dependent variable?
300
After learning the outcome of an event, many people believe they could have predicted that very outcome - this leads to this type of bias. Also called the I-knew-it-all-along phenomenon.
What is hindsight bias?
400
Participants, and the data gained from them, must be kept _____________ unless they give their full consent.
What is anonymous (or confidential)?
400
This effect has to do with an intervention that resembles medical therapy but actually has no medical effects.
What is a placebo?
400
Asch wanted to test _____________ by putting a participant in a group of people whose task was to match line lengths (some participants were actors who said the wrong answer on purpose).
What is conformity?
400
In an experiment looking at the effects of studying on test scores, studying would be this variable.
What is the independent variable?
400
This type of phobia happens when a person has a fear of being without their mobile phone.
What is nomophobia?
500
This process includes explaining the purpose and method of the experiment, asking the participants their feelings about being a participant. It usually takes place after the experiment.
What is debriefing?
500
This experiment was based on Albert Bandura's social learning theory. He thought children could learn violence through observation.
What is the Bobo Doll Experiment?
500
This famous experiment put random people in the roles of prisoners or guards in a fake prison.
What is the Stanford Prison Experiment?
500
In an experiment looking at the effects of studying on test scores, the test scores would be this variable.
What is the dependent variable?
500
The people watching protocol is an example of a ____________ observation.