Ethics? More like suggestion
A researcher removes identifying information from published results to protect participants from being personally identified. This ethical principle is called protecting participants' ______.
Confidentiality
Researchers conduct the same study again to determine whether the original findings can be reproduced. This process is called ______.
Replication
This psychological perspective examines how natural selection may have shaped behaviors and mental processes that helped our ancestors survive and reproduce.
Evolutionary Perspective
After hearing that a student failed a test, you say, "I knew they were going to fail!"
Hindsight Bias
Find the MODE in the data set: 3, 5, 5, 7, 8, 9, 12.
5 (x2)
Before participating in a study, researchers generally must explain the study and obtain this from participants.
Informed Consent
In an experiment testing whether background music affects memory, the presence or absence of music is the ______ variable.
Independent
A psychologist examines how rewards and punishments influence a student's study habits. Which perspective is being used?
Behavioral Perspective
A student believes they are an excellent driver and focuses on the times they drove safely while ignoring several recent accidents. What bias is influencing their thinking?
Confirmation Bias
Researchers find a correlation between ice cream sales and drowning deaths. A student concludes that eating ice cream causes drowning. Identify the error in the student's reasoning.
A researcher deceives participants about the true purpose of a study. Under ethical guidelines, this may be allowed only when the deception is justified and participants receive this afterward.
Debriefing
In the same experiment, students' scores on a memory test are the ______ variable.
Dependent
A psychologist argues that unconscious conflicts and early childhood experiences influence an adult's behavior. Which perspective is this?
Psychodynamic/Psychoanalytic
elieving AP Psych is the "easy AP" and that you don't need to study is evidence of which obstacle to critical thinking?
Overconfidence
Data set A has a mean of 80 and a standard deviation of 2. Data set B has a mean of 80 and a standard deviation of 15. Which data set has greater variability?
This group must verify and approve of your study before it takes place.
IRB or Institutional Review Board
This is the specific, measurable way a researcher defines a variable in a study.
Operational Definition
This perspective focuses on how the brain, nervous system, hormones, and genetics influence behavior.
Biological Perspective
Emily performs poorly on an exam & explains his failure by saying, “No one could pass it.” This illustrates...
Self-Serving Bias
A correlation coefficient of r = −0.89 indicates a
________ ________ ________ relationship.
Strong negative correlation
A researcher wants to study stress in high school students. Explain two ethical considerations that have not been covered yet that the researcher should address before conducting the study.
Examples: Informed consent, confidentiality, protection from harm, voluntary participation, right to withdraw, and debriefing when appropriate.
A researcher randomly assigns participants to either a sleep group or a no-sleep group before measuring reaction time. Why is random assignment important?
Example: It helps create equivalent groups and reduce the influence of preexisting differences, strengthening conclusions about cause and effect.
This perspective focuses on how people think, remember, perceive, interpret, and process information.
Cognitive Perspective
Shark attacks & Presidents, Christopher & Burglaries, and Zodiac sign & Personality are examples of what correlation?
Illusory Correlation
If only 12% of people your age are taller than you, you are in the ______ _______ for height.
88th Percentile