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Scientific Thinking
Psychology's Past
Validity and Reliability
Experimentation
Wild Card
100
A specific predictions based on a theory that can be tested.
What is a hypothesis?
100
Watson and Skinner were the major figures in this psychological perspective.
What is behaviorism?
100
The degree to which an assessment tool produces stable and consistent results.
What is reliability?
100
In an experiment, this group does not receive the manipulated independent variable.
What is the control group?
100
A research design that examines the extent to which two variables are associated.
What is correlational design?
200
The tendency to stick to our initial belief even when evidence contradicts them.
What is belief perseverance?
200
This psychological perspective focuses on internal processes of which we are unaware. Hint hint: Freud
What is psychoanalysis?
200
This refers to whether or not a test measures what it claims to measure.
What is validity?
200
Any difference between the experimental and control groups not caused by the independent variable.
What are confounds?
200
Name a measure of central tendency other than median.
What is mean, mode?
300
Claims that seem scientific, but aren't.
What is pseudoscience?
300
Name two types of psychologists.
What is clinical, counseling, school, developmental, etc.
300
Naturalistic observation has a high degree of ______ validity because we can easily generalize findings to the real world.
What is external?
300
The application of mathematics to describing and analyzing data.
What is statistics?
300
These people read articles to spot potential flaws in research methods.
What are peer reviewers?
400
This asks the question, "Can this claim be disproved"?
What is falsifiability?
400
This debate seeks to determine whether we are mostly influenced by our genes or our environment.
What is nature v. nurture?
400
Naturalistic observation has little ______ validity because we cannot determine causal relationships.
What is internal?
400
1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 4 Find the median!
What is 2?
400
As the value of one variable changes, the other goes on the opposite direction.
What is negative correlation?
500
Correlation does not always equal...
What is causation?
500
This perspective highlights the role of thought and our interpretation of events.
What is cognitivism?
500
Mental shortcuts we use to save cognitive energy that may cause us to oversimplify reality.
What are heuristics?
500
This takes into account how far each data point is from the mean.
What is standard deviation?
500
This measures how loosely or tightly bunched scores are.
What is variability?