Famous Studies
The study which investigated how people react to different roles assigned to them.
What is the Stanford Prison Experiment?
The method that investigates one individual or small group in detail, including interviews and observations.
What is a case study?
The variable that the experimenter manipulates or controls; the "if."
What is the independent variable?
When two variables both increase or both decrease.
What is positive correlation?
The best method for getting a lot of data about a lot of people.
What is a survey?
Genie, the child who was kept in her room for 13 years and never spoken to, showed us an example of this research method.
What is a case study?
The method that includes studying people in a natural, real-world setting.
What is naturalistic observation?
The variable that the experimenter measures to see how it was affected by the other variable. The "then."
What is the dependent variable?
When one variable increases while the other decreases.
What is negative correlation?
If I want data about MCA students, I survey 10 girls from each grade. This is called this.
What is a representative sample?
What is the critical period to learn language?
The method that includes studying people in an artificial, controlled environment.
What is laboratory observation?
The group that is exposed to the independent variable.
What is the experimental group?
The number that represents no correlation.
What is 0?
Descriptive research methods help us form this.
What is a hypothesis?
This study investigated whether people would obey authority even if it hurts someone else.
What is the Milgram Shock Experiment?
The method that studies the same group of participants for years, sometimes decades.
What is a longitudinal study?
A variable that can interfere with your experiment.
What is a confounding variable?
Correlation CANNOT show us this.
What is causation?
The only research method that can help us determine a cause.
What is an experiment?
The hypothesis that people will be more productive if they are being watched. (This has to do with the name of a study that you read.)
What is the Hawthorne Effect?
The method that includes studying people of different ages at the same time.
What is a cross-sectional study?
A study in which neither the experimenter nor the participants know who is in which group.
What is a double-blind study?
The less time I spend speaking, the poorer my communication skills are. This is an example of:
An agreement by an individual to participate in research after receiving information about the purpose of the study.
What is informed consent?