Scientific Psychology
Learning about the world through careful observation.
What is Systematic Empiricism?
A quantity that varies across individuals.
What is Quantitative Variable?
The assignment of scores to individuals so that the scorescrepresent some characteristic of the individuals.
What is Measurement?
Refers to the consistency of a measure.
What is Reliability?
IRB meaning
What is Institutional Review Board?
Activities and beliefs that claim to be (and sometimes appear to be) scientific but are not.
What is Pseudoscience?
A quality that varies across indivudals.
What is Qualitative Variable?
Field of psychological measurement
What is Psychometrics?
A database of psychological tests and measures designed for use with social and behavioral science research.
What is PsycTESTS?
Ethical violation using others' words or ideas without proper acknowledgment
What is Plagiarism?
Descriptions of research that are available to other researchers and the general public through publication.
What is Public Knowledge?
The entire group of individuals that the researcher wants to draw a conclusion about.
What is Population?
Set of five traits that capture much of the variation in human personality.
What is The Big Five?
Refers to the extent to which the scores represent the variable they are intended to.
What is Validity?
Misleading participants about the purposes and procedures of the research.
What is Deception?
Capable of potentially being proven false.
What is Falsifiable?
Type of sampling done by recruiting willing participants who happen to be nearby.
What is Convenience Sampling?
How a variable or construct is to be measured in a particular context.
What is Operational Definition?
The extent to which a measure appears “on its face” to measure the variable or construct it is supposed to.
What is Face Validity?
Leader of Study on Obedience in 1963
Who is Stanley Milgrim?
Questions about how the world works that can be answered through systematic observation.
What are Empirical Questions?
Thought to be the “effect” of another variable .
What is Dependent Variable?
Level of measurement that includes rank ordering individuals.
What is Ordinal?
The extent to which the items on a multiple-item measure are consistent with each other.
What is Internal Consistency?
Set of ethical standards made after Tuskegee that inspired the Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects.
What is The Belmont Report?