Creating Hypothesis and Theories
A guess about the relation or effect that is established at the start of an experiment
What is hypothesis?
When scientists observe and record the data from their observations
What is observational method?
When two variables are measured and the relationship between them is perceived
What is correlational method?
Where a researcher randomly assigns a participant to conditions, changing only the independent variable and recording the effects
What is experimental method?
The agreement and awareness of the participant on the expierment
What is informed consent?
When people are less likely to act or take responsibility when they believe others are around
What is diffusion of responsibility?
When independent observers come up with the same observations and correlating data
What is inter-judge reliability?
Where people are asked to record their answers for research
What is survey?
This design helps solve social problems
What is applied research?
When at the end of the study the scientist explains to the participant the true purpose of the study
What is debriefing?
Two common reasons social psychologists formulate hypothesis and theories
What is inspiration and personal experiences?
When a scientist observes documents, culture, and other media
Archival analysis?
A technique in which you predict one variable from another
What is correlation coefficient?
How much psychological responses triggered and research could do the same in real life
What is psychological realism?
A group that has a scientist, non scientist, and not associated with institution to decide if experiments are ethical
What is institutional review board?
When a theory is made, tested, then based on the outcome revised and remade.
What is theory refinement?
The most important limit to the observational method
What is cannot predict and explain?
When people don't know they answer, but they think they do and record their answers with those theories
What is 'telling more than you know'?
The technique that shows researcher that the probability of their result was not by chance
What is p-value?
An organization that represents psychology in the United States, established ethical guidelines
What is The American Psychological Association?
In the 1950s, Leon Festinger unsatisfied with current theories at the time created a new theory
What is dissonance theory?
The method used to study a group of people in 1956 that believed the world would end
What is ethnography?
What year was a survey conducted on the American's people choice for president that showed most would vote for Landon, this later an error in the survey
What is 1936?
Who's experiment showed the present of others made others less likely to to help
Who is Latane and Darley?
According to the textbook, almost 'all participants understand and appreciate the need for -'
What is deception?