1.1-1.4 Review
Scientific Method and Description (1.5)
Correlation and Experimentation (1.6)
Statistical Reasoning(1.8)
Misc.
100
Behaviors being the result of biology (genes) or environment
nature-nurture
100
a descriptive technique in which one individual or group is studied in depth in the hope of revealing universal principles.
case study
100
Which of the following represents the strongest correlation?
A. 0.92
B. -.99
D. 0.01
D. 2.1
B
100
Which of the following p values is NOT statistically significant
A. 0.06
B. 05
C. .01
A
100
A common technique of the structuralist school is
introspection
200
first female to earn phD in psychology
Margaret Floy Washburn
200
a carefully worded statement of the exact procedures (operations) used in a research study. For example, human intelligence may be operationally defined as what an intelligence test measures.
operational definition
200
A procedure in which both the participants and the researcher don’t know which group received the treatment and which group didn’t.
double blind procedure
200
Consider the following data set
[ 2 3 4 6 8 2 6 34]
Which measure of central tendency would be most affected by the outlier?
mean (average)
200
This person established the first psychology lab
Wilhelm Wundt
300
A person who thinks their sense of direction is much better than it actually is could show _______________ by going on a long trip without a map and refusing to ask for directions if they get lost along the way.
overconfidence
300
"Students who eat breakfast will perform better on a math exam than students who do not eat breakfast."
This statement--a testable prediction---is an example of a
hypothesis
300
The belief that you will do well on a test because of the kind of sweater you are wearing is an example of a ______________ correlation
illusory
300
When most of the data in a distribution fall to one side, this is known as a ____________ distribution
Hint: Not a "Normal" Distribution
Skewed
300
post-experimental explanation of a study including its purpose & any deceptions to its participants
debriefing
400
these kinds of psychologists assist people in school, work, or marriage problems, often to achieve better well being
Counseling
400
a sample that fairly represents a population because each member has an equal chance of inclusion.
random sample
400
I want to design an experiment where I want to find out if students do better on the test depending on what room they were in (100 or 106). For each student, I flip a coin. If the coin lands on "heads", I place them in Room 100. If it is tails, I place them in 106. I do this until one room has 11 students, so the other will have 11
This processing of placing students in rooms is an example of
Random Assignment
400
Which of the following data sets of test scores likely has a lower Standard Deviation?
A: [ 87 88 92 90 92 89 87]
B: [53 64 93 76 88 42 93 100 32]
A
400
Conducting an experiment which has already been conducted and achieving the same results
*Extremely important in validating results
Replication
500
These three people believed in the existence of "innate" ideas and that the mind could survive death
Socrates
Plato
Descartes
500
I want to know how many high schoolers at IFS like sports, and I survey only males. This process of obtaining in unrepresentative sample is known as
Sampling bias
500
I want to conduct an experiment as to whether students perform better on a quiz while listening to the Qur'an or while in silence. Identify the following:
Independent Variable:
Dependent Variable:
Control Group:
Experimental Group:
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500
What percent of scores are greater than 40?
I will accept
97.6 or 97.5
500
List at least 2 major weaknesses of gathering data through surveys
sampling bias
wording effects
population
location