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100
A group in research that receives treatment.
What is an Experimental Group?
100
A factor that can take on different values.
What is a Variable?
100
A type of self-report data about attitudes, behaviors, or characteristics.
What is a Survey?
100
An entire group of people a person is interested in studying.
What is a Population?
100
The small group of participants selected from a population.
What is a sample?
200
When researchers collect observations of natural, ongoing behavior.
What is Naturalistic Observation?
200
What is a Positive Correlation?
200
A group of people that reviews research before it is approved.
What is the Institutional Review Board (IRB)?
200
The way a researcher selects participants from a population.
What is Sampling?
200
What is a Negative Correlation?
300
A variable that a researcher manipulates.
What is an Independent Variable?
300
The variable that we record the outcome of.
What is a Dependent Variable?
300
CORRELATION DOES NOT EQUAL
CAUSATION
300
An "If ___, then ___." statement.
What is a Hypothesis?
300
A group in an experiment that does not receive the treatment, or an ineffective treatment.
What is a Control Group?
400
When a participant knows he or she is in an experiment and may not act naturally.
What is Participant Bias?
400
A set of concepts that explain a phenomenon or set of phenomena.
What is a Theory?
400
When the experimenter may treat participants differently and influence their behavior according to the research hypothesis.
What is Experimenter Bias?
400
A sample that reflects the entirety of the population.
What is a Representative Sample?
400
When a researcher selects participants that are readily available.
What is Convenience Sampling?
500
Participants must consent to participating in research and be aware of what the research entails.
What is Informed Consent?
500
A definition of a variable that has specific terms of operation, procedures, or specific behaviors.
What is an Operational Definition?
500
The systematic, empirically based investigation of phenomena through observations and measurements and the formulation of testable and falsifiable explanations.
What is The Scientific Method?
500
The close examination of a relationship between two variables without any manipulation.
What is a Correlation?
500
A testable statement about the relationship between two variables - based on observations and prior research.
What is a Hypothesis?