Experiments
The variable experimenters change to observe its effects.
A measure of the degree of relatedness between two variables.
What is correlation?
The most commonly used measure.
What is mean?
These are studied by the vast majority of psychologists.
What are everyday behaviors and feelings?
Exhibited when participants' illnesses change because they believe a treatment will have an effect.
What is the placebo effect?
The Group of participants who are exposed to the independent variable.
What is the experimental group?
Analysis to determine if data supports the hypothesis or the results are to chance.
What is inferential statistics?
The mode of this distribution:
63, 75, 75, 79, 82, 82, 84, 84, 84, 84, 91, 99
What is 84?
A psychologist who studies the effects of overcrowding on humans.
What is an environmental psychologist?
Stanley Milgrim studied "shocking the learners" in this type of blind experiment.
What is a single-blind experiment?
Graph that demonstrates the direction of the relationship between two variables.
What is a scatterplot?
The median of this distribution:
65, 78, 78, 81, 84, 92, 96
What is 81?
What is the legal system?
The group of participants to whom the treatment(independent variable) is NOT applied.
What is the control group?
Listing and summarizing data in a practical way.
What are descriptive statistics?
Arranging data so you know how often a score occurs.
What is a frequency distribution?
A psychologist who deals with topics relating to teaching children.
Neither the participants or experimenters know who has received treatment or placebo in this type of blind study.
What is a double blind study?
Type of sample required to conduct a valid study of a large population.
What is a representative sample?
A symmetrical bell-shaped curve.
What is a normal curve?
Therapists who study the unconscious, using free association or dream analysis, follow this Freudian approach.
What is psychoanalysis?