In the Beginning
Stats and Such
What is Research?
More Research
Problems, Problems
100

The first step psychologists take in researching an issue

What is observation?

100
This is considered an average of all results and is the most commonly used measure of central tendancy
What is the mean?
100
The small group of participants, out of a total number available, that researchers study
What is a sample?
100
The measure of the relationship between two variables or sets of data
What is a correlation?
100

A situation in which the participant's behavior during an experiment is influenced by how they believe they are supposed to be behaving. 

What is research participant bias?

200

It provides a wealth of descriptive material that may generate new hypothesis

What is descriptive research?

200
Researchers use these to make generalizations about the population from which their participants come
What are inferential statistics?
200

Dividing participants randomly into two or more groups

What is random assignment?

200
Any factor that can change
What is a variable?
200

The degree to which the changes in the dependent variable are actually due to manipulation of the independent variable? 

What is internal validity?

300

What is the independent variable: A researcher who predicts hours spent watching tv will increase life-satisfaction.

What is a hours watching tv?

300

This measures how much the scores vary, on average, around the mean.

What is standard deviation?

300
Research method that involves an intensive investigation of one or more participants
What is a case study?
300
The group to which an independent variable is applied
What is experimental group?
300
A change in a participant's behavior that results from a belief that the treatment will have an actual effect, rather than the actual treatment
What is the placebo effect?
400

The term for how psychologists conduct research about the mind and behavior

What is the scientific method?

400
The branch of mathematics concerned with summarizing and making meaningful inferences from collections of data
What is statistics?
400
Research method in which information is obtaind by asking many individuals a fixed set of questions
What is a survey?
400

The methods of conduct or standards for proper, responsible behavior

What are ethics?

400

What is the document that outlines three ethical principles: beneficence, respect for persons, and justice?

What is the Belmont Report?

500

What is the dependent variable: examining how eating candy influences ADHD symptoms in grade school children


What is ADHD symptoms?

500
The listing and summarizing of data is a practical, efficient way
What is descriptive statistics?
500
Research method in which data is collected from groups of participants of different ages and compared so that conclusions can be drawn about differences due to age
What is a cross-sectional study?
500
An educated guess
What is a hypothesis?
500
An experiment where the participants believed they were initiating fatal electric shocks to others, simply because they were told to do so
What is The Milgram Experiment?
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