Groups
Cause and Effect
Variables
Random Assignment
Who's your daddy of psychology?
100
These two groups are used to test independent variables.
What are Experimental and Control groups.
100
Represented by a number between +1 and -1 which shows the strength of the relationship.
What is correlation?
100
Quantity of one.
How many independent variables should be in one experiment?
100
Randy designed an experiment using people from his Psychology class, choosing only from the people on his side of the class.
What is Non Random Assignment?
100
This Russian has a thing for conditioned reflexes that no dog can deny.
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
200
This is the group exposed to the independent variable.
What is Experimental Group?
200
Type of correlation between education level and income.
What is positive correlation?
200
Manipulated variable
What is another name for independent variable?
200
Ed designed an experiment choosing several people he did not know from the hall at school.
What is Random Assignment?
200
His theories of operant conditioning and reinforcement have had a lasting impact on psychology
Who is B.F. Skinner?
300
This group is given a Placebo.
What is Control Group?
300
Type of correlation between education level and years spent in jail.
What is negative correlation?
300
The dependent variable.
What is observed or measured in a experiment?
300
Sam picked all of her friends to help her with an experiment, rather than people she did not know.
What is Non Random Assignment?
300
He was the first behaviorist and argued that psychologists can only base their theories on observation.
Who is John B. Watson?
400
This poor group is always being manipulated.
What is Experimental Group.
400
Establishing that one variable has caused change in the other variable.
What is cause and effect?
400
To see if there is a change or response to test subjects.
Why is the independent variable changed?
400
The professor chose all of the psychology teachers in the school to be part of the experiment.
What is Non Random Assignment?
400
Named for a psychoanalyst, this inadvertent error in speech is said to reveal one's unconscious belief or thought.
What is a Freudian slip?
500
This is the group that get either no treatment or some kind of treatment that should have no effect.
What is Control Group
500
This type of variable can make it difficult to determine if the results are due to the influence of the independent variable.
What is a confounding variable?
500
They are called extraneous or confounding variables.
What are uncontrolled variables in a experiment?
500
Lalei asked people from around the entire town to show up to the library, the people that showed up she used in her experiment.
What is Random Assignment?
500
Experimental psychology emerged as a modern academic discipline in the 19th century when he came around.
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
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