Perspectives
Says behavior patterns are heavily influenced by what enhances reproductive success
What is the evolutionary perspective?
What is an experiment?
This fundamental requirement ensures that researchers minimize any physical or psychological risk to those involved in a study.
What is Protection from Harm?
Describe the correlation:
If more time is spent studying, exam scores tend to go up
What is a positive correlation?
This is a testable prediction, often written as an "If... then..." statement, about the relationship between two variables.
What is a Hypothesis?
Says behavior/personality is heavily influenced by conflicts buried in your unconscious
What is the psychoanalytic (psychodynamic) perspective?
Process that ensures participants have an equal chance of being in either the control group or experimental group
What is random assignment?
To meet this ethical standard, researchers must provide enough information about a study so a participant can make an educated decision on whether to join.
What is Informed Consent?
These are important when researchers want to be able to replicate an experiment
What are operational definitions?
These are "extra" variables that the researcher failed to control, which can hide the true relationship between the independent and dependent variables.
What are Confounding Variables?
Says human behavior is not simply a product of their environment but governed by their potential for growth
What is humanism?
Mr. Feeny designs an experiment to see if room temperature impacts his classes' exam performance. In his experiment, room temperature would be...
What is the independent variable (IV)?
Occurring after a study is complete, this process involves telling participants the true purpose of the research and the results obtained.
What is Debriefing?
Ms. Honey designs an experiment to see if exercise improves her students' concentration during long PowerPoints. In her experiment, concentration would be...
What is the dependent variable (DV)?
This group of participants is treated exactly like the others but does not receive the actual treatment or manipulation; it is used as a baseline for comparison.
What is the Control Group?
The perspective in psych that focuses on how humans acquire knowledge and solve problems.
What is the cognitive perspective?
Type of descriptive research method that provides an in-depth picture of a single subject
What is a case study?
This committee of experts must screen and approve any research study involving human subjects before any data collection begins.
What is the Institutional Review Board (or IRB)?
Describe the relationship:
A negative correlation between hunger and concentration
as hunger increases, concentration tends to decrease OR
as hunger decreases, concentration tends to increase
This occurs when a participant’s expectations or beliefs about a treatment cause them to experience a change, even if they received a "fake" treatment like a sugar pill.
What is the Placebo Effect?
The technique used by structuralists to study consciousness by training subjects to describe their personal experiences
What is introspection?
Ms. Frizzle only asks her AP students to participate in a survey and concludes students at Walkerville High are given far too much homework each night. What research flaw undermines her findings?
What is sampling bias? (Needs representative sample)
Considered the strongest level of identity protection, this ensures that not even the researchers themselves can link the collected data back to a specific individual.
What is Anonymity?
A research design strategy that neutralizes the impact of experimenter bias
What is a double-blind procedure?
In an experiment, this is the group of participants who are exposed to the independent variable or the specific treatment being studied.
What is the Experimental Group?