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Basics and Ethics
Research Methods
Experiments
There's math in psychology
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This is a testable prediction, often prompted by a theory, to enable us to accept, reject, or revise the theory
What is a hypothesis
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This descriptive method records behavior in a natural environment
What is naturalistic observation
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This is the difference between experimental and control group

What is experimental group is exposed to treatment (the manipulated IV) while control group is not

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This is the computed measure of how much scores vary around the mean score.
What is standard deviation
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This is the difference between the highest and lowest scores in a distribution.
What is range
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These are 3 of the main ethics of research

What is 1. Do no harm 2. Informed consent 3. debrief after experiment 4. Confidentiality

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This is an observation technique in which one person is studied in depth in the hope of revealing universal principles AND a drawback to this technique

What is a case study; it is not be representative of population

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Thus is a statement of the procedures used to define research variables.
What are operational definitions
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What standard deviation data from experiments is shown it is usually in this format

What is a Bell Curve

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Name that correlation: Amount of time spent in school and amount of time spent in jail

What is negative?
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This is the tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen it.
What is hindsight bias?
300
This is a method that ascertains self-reported attitudes or behaviors of a particular group and these are 2 examples of potential drawbacks to using this method.
What is survey method - wording effects - sampling bais
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This is the why a double-blind procedure is used

What is to eliminate experimenter AND participant bias 

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Correlational Studies are usually presented as these

What are scatter plots

300

Anything that causes a change in the results or interferes with the IV of the experiment are called

What are confounding variables?

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This is any effect on behavior caused by expectations alone
What is placebo effect
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Research tool that allows you to reach many people quickly and inexpensively but can have problems with self-report.

What is a survey?

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In an experiment, the hypothesis was that Eating Cookies before the test would increase test scores. Name the independent, dependent, and 3 confounding variables.

What is IV is cookies, DV is test scores, and confounding varies.

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This is the mean, median and mode of the following list of numbers: 1,1,3,3,3,3,4,6

What is mean:3 median:3 mode: 3

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Which of the following has a stronger correlation? +.03 -.87 +.80 -.34

What is -.87. Remember the closer to +1 or -1 the stronger the relationship The closer to 0 the weaker the relationship

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Researchers want their research to measure what it is meant to. If it does, the research is

What is valid?

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What is random assignment vs. random sampling?

random assignment: assigning participants to treatment or non treatment group

random sampling: everyone in the population has an equal chance of being in the study.

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In order for experiments to be accepted by the scientific community they must be both of these things

What is reliable and valid

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If a standard deviation from a mean of 3 is .5, how many standard deviations is a score of 2 from the mean?

What is 2 or 4

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This man created the scientific method

Who is Sir Frances Bacon