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Experimenter Bias
What is a process where the scientists performing the research influence the results, in order to portray a certain outcome.
Placebo Effect
What is the improvement resulting in the mere expectation of improvement?
Nocebo Effect
What is harm resulting in the mere expectation of harm?
Blind
What is unaware of whether one is in the experimental or control group?
Double Blind Studies
What is neither researchers nor participants are aware of who's in the experimental or control group?
Experimenter Expectancy Effect
What is a phenomenon in which researchers' hypotheses lead them to unintentionally bias the outcome?
Demand Characteristics
What is ques that participants pick up from a study that allow the to generate guesses regarding the hypothesis?
Things established by the APA
What is save the animals?
Random Selection
What is everyone has the same probability of being selected?
Random Assignment
What is randomly sorting participants into two groups?
Descriptive Statistics
What is numerical characterization that describes data?
Inferential statistics
What is mathematical methods that allow us to determine whether we can generalize findings from our sample to the full population?
Statistical Significance
What is very unlikely to have occurred given the null hypothesis.
Mean
What is average?
Median
What is the middle?
Mode
What is the number seen the most?