Limitations/Strengths
The way in which a question is presented on a survey and may cause bias, is the limitation known as
What is the wording effect?
What is an experimental group/condition?
When the mean, median, and mode are all equal, it creates a
What is a normal distribution/bell curve?
Name the correlation:
If more time is spent studying, exam scores tend to go up
What is a positive correlation?
Which ethical standard states a researcher is not permitted to release participants personal information?
confidentiality
Mr. Smith would like to manipulate variables and test for cause and effect, which research method should Mr. Smith utilize.
What is the experimental method?
The individual may not be representative or typical is a limitation of which research method
What is a case study?
Process that ensures participants have an equal chance of being in either the control group or experimental group
What is random assignment?
How far scores are from the mean
What is standard deviation?
These are important when researchers want to be able to replicate an experiment
What are operational definitions?
Which ethical standard must be completed prior to the experiment, where the participants must give permission to participate in the experiment.
What is right to informed consent?
Mr. Howard only asks his AP psychology students to participate in a survey and concludes those students are given far too much homework each night. What research flaw undermines his findings?
What is sampling bias?
When a subject is being directly observed in their natural setting
What is naturalistic observation?
Mr. Howard 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)?
The difference between the highest and lowest score is callled
What is the range?
Mr. Howard designs an experiment to see if exercise improves his students' concentration during long PowerPoints. In his experiment, concentration would be...
What is the dependent variable (DV)?
This ethical standard must be completed after an experiment has been concluded.
What is debriefing?
To learn about the TV viewing habits of all the children attending Oslo High School, Professor Davis randomly selected and interviewed 50 of the school's students. In this instance, all the children attending the school are considered to be a(n)
What is population?
Jacob made a prediction after his experiment concluded and not prior. Jacob is experiencing
What is hindsight bias?
Type of descriptive research method that provides an in-depth picture of a single subject
What is a case study?
What are mean, median, and mode?
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
The right of participants who do not wish to complete a study they began
What is right to withdraw?
Dr. Richardson hypothesized that students in a classroom seating 30 would get higher course grades than students seated in an auditorium seating 300.The operational definition of the independent variable is
What is the # of students/30?
The correlation method can not state cause and effect due to
What is the third variable problem?
Dr. Lewis wanted to include two hundred people from his target population, therefore he made sure everyone had an equal chance of being picked for his study. Dr. Lewis is practicing
What is random sample/selection?
When results of an experiment are not due to chance, this is called
What is Statistical Significance?
A research design strategy that neutralizes the impact of experimenter bias
What is a double-blind procedure?
What is the Institutional Review Board?
Mr. Rogers represents the direction and strength between two variables, this statistical measure Mr. Rogers is using is called
What is a correlation coefficient?