Experiments
What is random assignment?
Someone pretending to be a participant in a study, but is actually part of the research team.
What is a confederate?
Full name for the IRB, an entity that ensures participant privacy and informed consent.
What is the Institutional Review Board?
What is an independent samples t-test?
A type of experiment when the researcher does not assign participants to a condition.
What is a natural experiment?
Changing participant names in your data to numbers accomplishes this.
What is confidentiality?
Informs potential participants about (1) any potential risks or harms, (2) the length of the study, (3) any potential benefits of participation, (4) the procedure for withdrawal from the study and clarification that this can be done without penalty, (5) contact information for the lead investigator and the IRB, and (6) any special circumstances or procedures associated with the study.
What is a consent form?
The first step of an ANOVA that tells you if there are any mean differences across conditions.
What is an omnibus test?
The type of experiments that best minimize Hawthorne effects.
What are real-world experiments?
The most stringent way to ensure participant privacy.
What is anonymity?
An opportunity for the researcher to reveal the true purpose of the study to the participants when deception is used.
What is debriefing?
The test I run to determine if my students improved in their statistics ability between the first and final lab analysis.
What is a paired samples t-test?
This researchers randomly assigned first years at a large university to receive a voter registration flyer in the mail or not, and then observed the impact on voter turnout.
What is a field experiment?
What is voluntary participation?
Dr. Doe commits this when he takes a paragraph from his dissertation and inserts it into the literature review of a new article.
What is self-plagiarism?
The test I run to determine if my between-subjects experimental design resulted in any mean differences across the control, low-, and high-salience groups.
What is an ANOVA?
The type of experiment that allows for the most researcher control.
What is a lab experiment?
The most notoriously infamous American study demonstrating harm as a result of research.
What is the Tuskegee syphilis study?
One of the most serious and damaging ethical violations possible in research; damages the integrity of scientific results.
Fabrication of data
The tests run to find that, under conditions of low salience, F(3, 289) = 4.31, p < .01, 𝜂2 = .04 , easy language was more effective at producing frame-consistent public opinion compared to the difficult language condition, F(1, 289) = 4.04, p < .05, 𝜂2 = .04.
What is an ANOVA and Sidak test?