Style of Research
Research Components
What A Variable
Statistical
Wildcard
100
This style of research aims to solve a problem and have its findings utilized for the betterment of people.
What is applied research?
100
When pulling from the general population, it is important to use this research component to ensure everyone has an equal chance of being a participant.
What is random sampling?
100
Dr. Bartos is a psychologist who believes that pet therapy leads to less anxiety. She hopes to fund a research project to demonstrate this so she can promote animal adoption at the local shelter where she volunteers. She is proposing an experimental study to examine this belief. What is the IV?
What is Pet Therapy?
100
This is the average of a set of scores. calculated by adding all the data points together and dividing by the number of points.
What is the mean?
100
This is the number that occurs the most in a data set.
What is the mode?
200
This form of research is excellent for getting a large amount of private information for a diverse population as it implements questionnaires to collect data.
What is a survey?
200
Dr. Valdez is a physician who believes that people are healthier if they eat only vegetables. He hopes to fund a research project to demonstrate this so he can promote his new vegetarian diet cookbook. He is proposing an experimental study to examine this belief. But what would the control group be?
Who are people that eat more than just vegetables?
200
Edgar is a psychologist interested in the effects of the presence of self-checkout counters on customer satisfaction. He convinces a large clothing company to consider adding self-checkout counters to some of its stores. Edgar’s hypothesis is that if self-checkout counters are introduced, customers will be more satisfied. He is proposing an experimental study to examine this belief. What is the DV?
What is customer satisfaction?
200
This is my correlational relationship.
What is negative correlation?
200
This is when a person's physical or mental health appears to improve after taking a perceived treatment (whether as a sugar pill or asserted false treatment)
What is the placebo effect?
300
This style of research is implemented to student unique individuals or small special groups of people to hopefully find truths that could apply to the general population.
What is a Case Study?
300
This is when you split participants of an experiment up into one of two conditions/groups using chance.
What is random assignment?
300
Eleanor is the owner of a cupcake bakery. She sells different flavors and sizes of cupcakes, but in general, she believes that when she puts chocolate frosting on the cupcakes, people are more satisfied. She is proposing an experimental study to examine this belief. What is the IV?
What is the frosting flavor of the cupcake?
300
This is the predicted relationship between the variables in the following scenario. Dr. Keyes is a veterinarian who believes that people are happier if they own more pets. He hopes to fund a research project to demonstrate this so he can increase the number of pets adopted at the local animal shelter he runs. He is proposing a correlational study to examine this belief.
What is a Positive Correlation?
300
These studies tend to show the causal relationship between the variables being studied.
What is a correlation study?
400
The only form of psychological research that can establish cause and effect through the manipulation of a variable while maintaining all of factors as neutral as possible.
What is experimentation?
400
A local state legislator is interested in funding a stress education program for all students. She believes that those students who take the stress education class will experience less anxiety. She is proposing an experimental study to examine this belief. Identify the experimental group.
Who are the students enrolled in the stress education course/class?
400
Gabriel is a psychologist who is interested in the effects on human performance when robots are used on assembly lines. He convinces a local factory to allow him to add robots to some of the assembly lines. He predicts that participants working on an assembly line where robots are added will be more productive. He is proposing an experimental study to examine this belief. Give an example of an Operational Definition for "worker productivity".
Answers may vary. Possible examples:
- # of units assembled per hour
- # of mistakes/errors per day (the lower the better)
400
The AP Psychology teacher got back his Unit 1 test scores with a mean score of 88 and a standard deviation of 7. So within one standard deviation, 68% of students fell in this score range.
What is 81-95?
400
These are the 4 ethical guidelines/requirements for all psychological experiments according to the APA.
What is Informed Consent, No Harm, Confidentiality, and Debriefing?
500
This style of research requires researchers to observe individuals without interacting to see their authentic behavior in a natural setting.
What is naturalistic observation?
500
Daily Double!!
This is the detailed description of how variables will be "measured" in a study. It is key because it allows future researchers to _______ the study.
What is operational definition and replicate?
500
The student body president proposes that high school students listen to classical music in class. She believes this change would increase student performance in high school. She is proposing an experimental study to examine this belief. What would be the DV of this study?
What is student performance?
500
This is the P-value or percentage of change occurring by chance for research to be statistical significant.
What is less than or equal to .05 or 5%
500
When neither the researchers nor the participants know who is receiving the authentic treatment in a study.
What is a double blind procedure?