What is Science?
Ethics
Measurement
Observational Methods
Miscellaneous
100
Subjective feelings based on magical thinking
What is superstition
100
The researcher who conducted unethical experiments to study the conditions under which individuals would follow the directions of an authority figure.
Who is Milgram
100
Characteristics that change or have different values for different individuals
What are variables
100
When participants change their behavior because they are aware of being observed
What is reactivity
100
Indirect observation of behavior using previously compiled information
What is archival research
200
The tendency to search out and pay attention to information that supports one's beliefs while ignoring contradictory evidence.
What is Confirmation Bias
200
Ensuring an individual's name is not directly associated with research data
What is anonymity
200
This level of measurement includes ranked data.
What is ordinal data
200
Mary Ainsworth's "strange situation" is an example of this type of observational method
What is laboratory/systematic observation
200
A set of formal statements that specifies how and why variables are related
What is a theory
300
The process of acquiring knowledge through direct observation and experience
What is empiricism
300
Manipulation of research data or omitting critical data is known as this
What is falsification
300
Abstract attributes that cannot be directly observed.
What are constructs
300
A continuous description of what an observer sees
What is a running narrative
300
Representing someone else's ideas as one's own
What is plagiarism
400
Karl Popper's criterion for testability
What is falsifiability
400
The process of minimizing the pain and distress of animals in research
What is refinement
400
A description of a variable of interest in terms of the specific procedures for measuring an observable behavior.
What is an operational definition
400
An in-depth study and detailed description of an individual
What is a case study
400
The extent to which a measure predicts future behavior
What is predictive validity
500
A characteristic shared by scientists and pseudoscientists that is associated with doubt and questioning
What is skepticism
500
Respect for persons, beneficence, and justice were the central principles of this
What is the Belmont Report
500
The correlation between two halves of a test
What is split half reliability
500
Rosenhan's study, "On being sane in insane places" is an example of this type of observational research
What is concealed participant observation
500
Clustering of scores at the high end of a scale
What is a ceiling effect
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