research method in which the psychologist observes the subject in a natural setting without interfering...
What is naturalistic observation
100
If another researcher can repeat the same experiment of another and come up with the same results, this is called:
What is Replication...
100
a theory, method, or practice that promotes claims in a way that appears to be scientific and plausible
even though supporting empirical evidence is lacking or nonexistent is known as...
What is Pseudoscience
100
The factor that is observed and measured for change in an experiment; thought to be influenced by the independent variable;
What is the dependent variable: (also called the outcome variable.)
100
In research, if something is not very likely to have occurred by chance, we call it...
statistically significant...
200
research method in which information is obtained by asking many individuals a fixed set of questions...
What is a survey
200
An experiment where both the participants and the experiminters do not know which participants received which treatment
What is a double-blind experiment...
200
If a researcher discloses personally identifiable information about any research participants in their writing, lectures, or other public forums, they have broken the Ethical guideline of:
What is Confidentiality of Information...
200
The group in an experiment that serves as the baseline, sometimes as a placebo group...
The Control Group
200
research strategies for observing and describing behavior...
What are Descriptive methods
300
This term defines the variables a researcher designs in specific terms of how the factors are to be measured, manipulated, or changed...
What are operational definitions
300
a method used by the researcher to improve an experiment's reliability, where the participants do not know if they have received the treatment or the placebo, (but the researcher still does)...
What is a single-blind experiment
300
The group to which an independent variable is applied...
What is the experimental group...
300
This is the variable that the experimenter manipulates...
What is the independent variable...
300
This research method is used to show that changing one variable causes change in a second variable
What is Experimental Research...
400
In these research studies we show how strongly two factors are related, in either a positive or negative direction...
What is a correlational study...
400
This type of Experiment is deployed to prove "Causation"...
What is The Experimental Study Method...
400
The step when researchers must explain to participants any significant factors that might influence a person’s willingness to participate in the study, such as potential risks, discomfort, or unpleasant emotional experiences, is referred to as:
Informed Consent
400
A factor or variable other than the ones being studied that, if not controlled, could affect the outcome of an experiment...
What is an extraneous variable: also called a confounding variable
400
A selected segment of the population used to represent the group that is being studied ; a subset of a population...
What is a sample
500
research method that involves an intensive investigation of one or more participants
What is a case study
500
Process in which subjects are selected by chance from a larger group so that every group member has an equal chance of being included in the study...
What is random selection or random assignment
500
A researcher lies to a participant in their research study, and fails to inform that participant about the lies after the study is completed- This violates which APA ethics guideline(s)?
What are Deception and Debriefing...
500
This type of study examines how strongly two variables are related to, or associated with, each other...
A correlational study
500
a tentative explanation that tries to integrate and account for diverse findings on the same research topic...