Research Details
What is a survey?
research in which a sample of people anonymously asked questions about their attitudes or behavior
A statement predicting the outcome of a study
What is the bystander effect?
what is basic research?
studies that are designed to find the best answer to the question of why people do what they do and are conducted for intellectual clarity
What is validity
the extent to which the results of the study can be trusted
What is random selection?
a way of ensuring that a sample of people is representative of a population by giving everyone an equal chance of being selected
What is an independent variable?
The variable that is manipulated in an experiment
what is hindsight bias?
what is applied research?
studies designed to solve a particular social problem
what is external validity?
The extent to which the results of a study can be generalized to other situations and people
what is the observational method?
technique by which a researcher observes people and records measurements of their behavior
What is a dependent variable?
The variable that is changes in an experiment based on the independent variable
What is a placebo?
an inactive substance or other intervention that looks the same as, and is given the same way as, an active drug or treatment being tested
what is cross-cultrual research?
Research conducted with members of different cultures to see whether the psychological processes of Interest are present in both cultures or whether they are specific to the culture in which people were raised
what is internal validity?
Making sure that nothing besides the independent variable can affect the dependent variable this is accomplished by controlling all extraneous variables and by randomly assigning people to different experimental conditions
what is the correlational method?
what is a cofounding variable?
A variable that is not accounted for and may affect the outcome of the study
what is debriefing?
explaining to participants the purpose and outcomes of a study after it is over
What is a field experiment?
Experiments conducted in natural settings rather than in a lab
What is a P-Value?
A number calculated with statistical techniques that tells researchers How likely it is that the results of an experiment occurred by chance and not because of the independent or dependent variables
what is enthrography
the method by which researchers attempt to understand a group or culture by observing it from the inside
What is a correlational coefficient?
what is deception?
misleading participants about the true purpose of a study or the events that will transpire
what is a replication?
Repeating a study often with different subject populations or in different settings
what is meta-analysis?
A statistical technique that averages the results of two or more studies to see if the effect of an independent variable is reliable