Scientific Method
Explains through an integrated set or principles that organizes observations and predicts behaviors or events.
What is a theory?
Examining one individual in depth to learn more about their behaviors.
What is a case study?
A group of individuals taking part in the research study.
What is a sample?
The manipulated factor in an experiment.
What is the independent variable?
The most frequently occurring score in a distribution.
What is mode?
A testable prediction.
Used to estimate wide spread attitudes or behaviors of a population.
What is a survey?
The group of people the findings of an experiment are expected to generalize.
What is the target population?
Varies depending on what takes place during the experiment.
What is the dependent variable?
The sum of all data divided by the number of scores.
What is the mean?
An attempt to repeat the results of an original experiment.
Unobtrusive observations of people/animals in their natural environment
What is naturalistic observation?
Recruiting populations that are readily available.
What is opportunity sampling?
Group which receives the treatment
What is the experimental group?
The midpoint of a set of data
What is the median?
A statement of the procedures used to define research variables.
What is operational definition?
Semi-structured interviews conducted in groups of 6-10 people.
What is a focus group?
Occurs when some members of a population are systematically more likely to be selected in a sample than others
What is sampling bias?
Group that does not receive treatment.
What is the control group?
The gap between the highest and lowest scores.
What is the range?
Assigning participants to experimental and control groups by chance.
What is Random Assignment?
Neither the participants nor the researcher collecting the data know which group receives treatment.
What is double-blind procedure?
Every person has an equal chance of participating in a population.
What is random sampling?
What is a placebo?
Measurement of how much scores deviate from one another.
What is standard deviation?