Misc Psych (0.1-0.6)
The research findings can be applied to a larger population.
What is Generalizability?
The committees responsible for reviewing proposals to ensure the study meets ethical and health guidelines.
What is the Institutional Review Boards (IRBs)?
The likely-hood that the result is not due to chance.
What is Statistical Significance?
The Average.
What is the Mean?
All participants have an equal opportunity to be included in the study.
What is a Random Sample.
The Tuskegee Syphilis study was an example of not following this guideline.
What is Informed Consent?
The majority of the data is to one side of the graph.
What is a Positive or Negative Skew
The middle of a list when put in accending order.
What is Median?
The group accurately represents the demographic of the population.
What is a Representative Sample?
This guideline makes it the obligation of the researchers to minimize risks and ensure well being.
What is Protect Participants from Harm?
The graph when the majority of the data falls near the center of the distribution.
What is the Bell Curve (Normal Curve)?
The participants are not aware if they are in the control group or the Experimental group. The researchers are aware of this.
What is a Single-Blind Study?
An actor who pretends they are a participant but are actually apart of the study.
What is a Confederate?
A way to measure how spread out or close numbers are in the group from the average.
What is Standard Deviation?
A type of data with 2 distinct modes
What is Bimodal Distribution?
Neither the participants or the researchers know who is in which group.
What is a Double Blind study?
the process of providing the participant with the whole truth about the experiment immediately after it is over.
What is Debriefing?