Participants were randomly assigned to either a noisy condition or a quiet condition.
What is Noise
100
People who reported being more extroverted (outgoing) also reported having more Facebook friends.
What is Facebook friends
100
The assignment of participants to different conditions according to a random procedure, such as flipping a coin, rolling a die, or using a random number generator.
What is Random Assignment
100
Measure two variables of interest with little attempt to control extraneous variables, your interest is in assessing the relationship between them
What is Correlational Research
100
How confident we are that the IV caused the change in the DV
What is Internal Validity
200
Children in Washington Elementary School were exposed to a new anti-drug program while children in Jefferson Elementary School served as a control group.
What is Drug Intervention
200
People who score high on the personality trait of conscientiousness were found to have better physical health than people who score lower on conscientiousness.
What is Physical Health
200
An experiment in which each participant is tested in all conditions.
What is Within Subjects
200
The research focuses on a single variable rather than the statistical relationship between variables
What is Single Variable Research
200
How confident we are that the results can be applied to other people and situations
What is External Validity
300
The self-esteem of American university students was compared with the self-esteem of Japanese university students.
What is Country
300
Participants were randomly assigned to complete a math test either with a time limit or with no time limit.
What is Math score
300
An experiment in which each participant is tested in one condition.
What is Between Subjects
300
An approach to data collection in which the behavior of interest is observed in the environment in which it typically occurs.
What is Naturalistic Observation
300
Generally, the research design (non, Quasi, true) with the highest external validity
What is non-experimental
400
Participants’ anxiety levels after they received psychotherapy were compared with their anxiety levels before they received psychotherapy.
What is Psychotherapy
400
Each subject rated the attractiveness of 20 smiling students and 20 non-smiling students.
What is Attractiveness
400
All other things being equal, the group that does not receive the treatment or manipulation
What is Control Condition
400
Existing data that were collected or created for some other purpose.
What is Archival Data
400
Generally, the research design (non, Quasi, true) with the highest internal validity
What is a True Experiment
500
Researchers posted pro-environment billboards around Fresno but not around Bakersfield. Later they measured the pro-environment attitudes of residents of Fresno and Bakersfield.
What is Billboards
500
All participants made moral judgments while drinking either a sweet drink or a bitter drink … and then they all made moral judgments again while drinking the other drink.
What is Moral Judgements
500
A treatment that lacks any active ingredient or element that should make it effective.
What is Placebo
500
when a researcher is looking for specific behaviors and observes their subject matter systematically
What is Systematic Observation
500
Generally, the part of a paper that explains what the threat to validity is, how it may have changed your results, and what you could do in the future to address the threat