An in-depth analysis of the thoughts, feelings, beliefs, experiences, behaviors, or problems of a single individual.
What is a case study
100
A technique for obtaining information asking questions.
What is an interview
100
A treatment or something that the researcher controls or manipulates
What is an independent variable
100
Experiments are not approved unless any potentially damaging effects can eliminated or counteracted.
What is ethical research
200
an intervention such as taking a pill that resembles medical therapy, but in fact has no medical effects.
What is placebo
200
A technique used for obtaining information by asking subjects to read a list of written questions and check off specific answers.
What is a questionnaire
200
One or more of the subjects' behaviors that are used to measure the potential effects of the treatment or independent variable.
What is a dependent variable
300
A change in the patients illness that is attributable to an imagined treatment rather than to a medical treatment.
What is placebo effect.
300
A technique to gather information about the brain by using a control.
What is a laboratory experiment
300
an educated guess about some phenomenon and is stated in precise, concrete language to rule out any confusion or error in the meaning of its terms.
What is a hypothesis
400
A way to obtain information by asking many individuals to answer a thick set of questions about particular subjects.
What is a survey
400
This involves studying individuals under systematic and controlled conditions, with many of the real-world influences eliminated.
What is a laboratory setting
400
An approach of gathering information and answering questions so that errors and biases are minimized
What is the scientific method
500
A research design in which the same group of individuals is studied repeatedly at many different points in time
What is a longitudinal study
500
A relatively normal environment in which researchers gather information by observing individuals' behaviors without attempting to change or control the situation.
What is a naturalistic setting
500
Composed of people who receive a treatment in an experiment or study