Exam 1
The scientific study of behavior and mental processes
What is psychology?
Original records of research
What is a primary source?
The x variable in a study that is not affected by the other variable.
What is the independent variable?
Experimenter who preformed study that looked at obedience to authority asking participants to turn a dial that is attached to nothing, but participants believe they are delivering shocks to another individual.
What is Stanley Milgram?
The error that the sample in an experiment does not accurately represent the population.
What is sampling error?
Intuition, Authority, Empiricism, Rationalism, and Scientific Method
What are the five methods of knowing?
Analysis or referencing of original research
What is a secondary source?
measuring that is by descriptions or qualities
What is qualitative?
The study of an event or phenomenon that is applied to other situations.
What is a case study?
Fixed measure describing a whole population
What is a parameter?
Describe, Predict, and Explain
A Newspaper is an example of...
What is a non-scholarly source?
The consistency of a measure is also known as the...
What is reliability?
The Standard Deviation squared
What is the variance?
Practical application of the result obtained from sample data
What is practical significance?
The number of Divisions of the APA?
What is 54?
A peer edited journal article is an example of...
What is a scholarly source?
The group in a study that does not receive a treatment
What is a control group?
Mean, median, and mode are measures of...
What is central tendency?
Rejection of a true null hypothesis
What is a type I error?
Group established to protect the rights of participants in research.
What is the IRB?
An examination of multiple studies on a research topic in order to find overall trends.
What is meta-analysis?
The design of a study in which all participants receive every treatment.
What is a within groups design?
The correlational relationship that describes when the x value increases or decreases the y value does the opposite.
What is a negative correlation?
The idea that many scientific studies cannot be reproduced.
What is the replication crisis?