Particular activities used to achieve research results, including experimental designs, sampling procedures, and statistical treatment of data.
What is Method
100
Study designs in which the researcher defines a problem and variable of interest but makes no prediction and does not control or manipulate anything.
What is Descriptive Design
100
An approach to research that focuses on narrative accounts, description, interpretation, context, and meaning.
What is Qualitative Research
100
The dominant paradigm for empirical research in psychology and the sciences.
What is Quantitative Research
100
A study design in which a psychologist, often a therapist, observes one person over a long period of time.
What is Case Study
200
: Involve asking people directly or indirectly what they think, feel, or have done. Specific questions, usually asked in precisely the same way to each respondent.
What is Interviews and Surveys
200
: a study in which the researcher unobtrusively observes and records behavior in the real world.
What is Naturalistic Observation
200
Studies that measure two or more variables and their relationship to one another. Correlation is NOT causation!!!
What is Correlational Designs
200
A research design that includes independent and dependent variables and random assignment of participants to control and experimental groups or conditions.
What is Experiment
200
research method similar to an experimental design except that it makes use of naturally occurring groups rather than randomly assigning subjects to groups.
What is Quasi-Experiment
300
research technique for combining all research results on one question and drawing a conclusion. To do a meta-analysis, the researcher converts the findings of each study into a standardized statistic known as effect size.
What is Meta-Analysis
300
an individual person or animal a researcher studies.
What is Participant
300
a collection of participant’s researchers study
What is Sample
300
the collection of people or animals from which researchers draw a sample.
What is Population
300
The distortion of results by a variable. Common types of bias include sampling bias, Participant bias, and experimenter bias.
What is Bias
400
Occurs when the sample studied in an experiment does not correctly represent the population the researcher wants to draw conclusions about.
What is Sampling Bias
400
Research Participants’ expectations can affect and change the Participants’ behavior
What is Participant Bias
400
Hypotheses, beliefs, and views on the part of the experimenter that may influence how the participants perform.
What is Experimenter Bias
400
changes in an outcome due to receipt of participation in a treatment.
What is Placebo Effect
400
experiment is an experiment in which the Participants don’t know whether they are receiving a real or fake drug or treatment.
What is Single-Blind
500
A procedure often used in medication trials in which patients and researchers who administer the drugs are not informed of whether they are receiving the medication or placebo.
What is Double-Blind
500
the tendency of some research Participants to describe themselves in socially approved ways.
What is Social Desirability Bias
500
: receives some form of the experimental condition or intervention. Independent Variable
What is Experimental Group
500
a group of research participants who are treated in exactly the same manner as the Experimental group, except that they do not receive the independent variable, or treatment.
What is Control Group
500
creates experimental and control groups in a way that gives Participants an equal chance of being placed in either group