Research Methods
The variable that is systematically manipulated by a researcher in an experiment.
What is independent variable
The interview technique that the police use in the USA to try and determine who is lying
What is the Reid Technique
What types of attitudes are “introspectively unidentified or inaccurately identified”?
What is Implicit Attitude
Where is Alison from?
What is England
The relationship between two variables where one increases another increases.
What is positive correlation
The comparison group in an experiment.
What is control condition
The psychologist who conducts most of the research of false confessions.
What is Kassin
We absorb implicit attitudes from our ____________ ?
What is Environment/ Surroundings/ Culture
What psychologist studied operant conditioning by conducting experiments using rats
Who is B.F. Skinner
A value between 0 and 1 that tells you the probability of the difference in your data being due to sampling error.
What is p-value
A study design where all participants take part in all conditions.
What is within subject design
A type of false confession where the innocent suspect actually begins to believe they committed the crime
Coerced-internalized
Black and White Americans generally show equal levels of implicit bias against Black Americans. Why is this?
They live in the same environment.
What country is Michaela from?
What is the Czech Republic
The most frequent score in a categorical variable
What is mode
An experimental procedure that ensures the participant and the researcher are not aware of the condition they have been place.
What is double blind study
An interrogation technique that implies a harsh punishment without explicitly threatening the suspect.
What is Maximization
Which cops show the highest levels of implicit bias against Black Americans?
Special unit officers
What school did Shannon and Nikol graduate from?
What us SUNY Farmingdale
The alpha value that psychologists agree a p-value must fall below to be considered statistically significant.
What is 0.05
Changes to participants’ once they are aware of the purpose of an experiment.
What are demand characteristics
An interrogation technique that increases the likelihood of coerced-compliant but not coerced-internalized false confessions
What is the bluff technique
What type of perspective taking is most effective at reducing implicit bias?
What is other perspective taking
A neural center located in the limbo system that helps process explicit memories for storage
What is hippocampus
Asymmetry in a data distribution, in which the normal bell-curve appears distorted to the left or right.
What is skewness