Vocab
A precise, testable statement of what the researchers predict will be the outcome of the study.
What is Hypothesis?
A comparison group in a study whose members receive either no intervention at all or some established intervention.
What is Control Group?
Occurs when you persistently or repeatedly have the feeling that your observing yourself from outside your body.
What is Depersonalization?
The discomfort a person feels when their behavior does not align with their values or beliefs.
The variable that the researcher manipulates is assumed to have a direct effect on the dependent variable.
What is an Independent Variable?
A tendency to respond one way compared to another when making some kind of life choice.
What is Bias?
The evaluation of scientific or academic work, such as research of articles submitted to journals for publication
What is Peer-Reviewed Journal?
The deepest level of conformity.
What is Internalization?
An experiment in which all the variable factors in an experimental group and a comparison control group are kept the same.
What are Controlled Experiments?
The variable that the researcher measures.
What is a Dependent Variable?
Occurs in quantitative research methods or process alter the out comes or finding of a systematic investigation.
What is Design Bias?
A two-week simulation of a prison environment that examined the effect of situational variables on participant's reactions and behaviors.
What is the Stanford Prison Experiment?
To destroy the subject's normal self-image.
What is Psychological Torture?
A study that is conducted outside the laboratory in a ¨real-world¨ setting.
What are Field Experiments?
An in-depth investigation of a single individual, family, event, or other entity.
What is a Case Study?
The tendency for extremely high or extremely low scores to become more moderate.
What is Regression Effect?
Hes known for his work on the Stanford Prison Experiment.
What is Philip Zimbardo known for?
The ascription of one's own or another's actions, an event, or an outcome to internal or psychological causes specific to the person concerned.
What is Dispositional Attribution?
A condition in an experiment or a characteristic of an entity, person, or object that can take on different categories.
What is a Variable?
A study in which a group of participants is selected from a population and data about or opinions from those participants are collected.
What is a Survey?
The characteristics of being founded on truth, accuracy, fact, or law.
What is Validity?
Existing in someone or something as a permanent and inseparable element, quality, or attribute.
What is Inherent?
The study of a naturally occurring situation as it unfolds in the real world.
What is Natural Experiments?
Any variable that's held constent in a research study.
What is a Controlled Variable?
A method for gathering information is used particularly in surveys and personal selection, in which questions, their wordings.
What is a Structured Interview?