Scientific Method
What is ask a question?
Unknown or unacknowledged error created during design, measurement, sampling, procedure, or choice of problem studies.
What is bias?
Is the research really measuring what it claims to be measuring?
What is validity?
A __________ involves making a prediction/forming a hypothesis and then gathering data through observation.
What is natural experiment?
A ______ is anything that can be changed in an experiment.
What is a variable?
True or false? The third step of the scientific method is to construct a hypothesis.
What is true?
Design of experiment leads to invalid results.
What is design bias?
An IQ test measures memory, not intellegience.
What is nonvalidity?
Compare an experimental group with a control group.
What is a controlled experiment?
Controlled variables
Independent variables
Dependent variables
What are the main types of variables?
The scientific method provides ______ steps to follow.
What is logical?
What is it called when a researcher chooses the most extreme examples in a group of subjects for a study.
What is the regression effect?
An IQ test properly measures intellegence.
What is validity?
May be either controlled or natural.
What is field experiment?
Variables that are kept constant or unhchanged.
Along with psychology, the scientific method is used in all types of what?
What is science?
Researcher wants to conduct a study, but only studies upper class teenagers, what is this?
What is design bias?
When measuring something, the scale is off by 5lbs.
What is nonvalidity?
Observing and recording variables of interest in a natural environment with no interference or manipulation by the experimenter.
What is naturalistic observation?
The one factor you are changing.
What is the independent variable?
If your hypothesis is false, what should you do?
A researcher studies only extremely wealthy people in an experiment meant to study wealth across the country.
What is the regression effect?
The degree to which a procedure appears effective in terms of its stated goal.
What is face validity?
Gives experimenter opportunity to view the variable of interest in natural environment
Offer ideas for further research
May be only option if lab experiment isn’t possible
What is naturalistic observation?
The variable in an experiment is the variable you observe.
What is the dependent variable?