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Research Methods
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This is the tentative statement of an experiment outcome made before the experiment is actually conducted.

What is the Hypothesis?

100

This is the condition or behavior that researchers manipulate.

What is the Independent Variable?

100

This experiment examined how individuals respond to directions from authority figures.

What is the Milgram Experiment?

100

This correlation is when you spend more hours playing Fortnite results in your score being higher.

What is a Positive Correlation?

100

This is the exact middle value in a set of values. 

What is the Median?

200

This group would be the one to experience the Placebo Effect.

What is the Control Group?

200

This research method is most popular because its easy to administer and provides more uniform results.

What are Questionnaires?

200

This experiment in which participants do not know if they are in the control group or the experimental group, but researchers know.

What is a Single-Blind Experiment?

200

Standards for proper and responsible behavior, or not treating people like guinea pigs is called this.  

What is Ethics?

200

In this data set {18,19,19,21,25,28,31} this number is the median.

What is 21?

300

This is the the most commonly used measure of central tendency, or the average.

What is the Mean?

300

Quantitative research methods differ from Qualitative research methods because they involve a ___________ number of participants.

What is large?

300

This experiment in which neither participants nor researcher know if they are in the control group or the experimental group.

What is a Double-Blind Experiment?

300

When the independent variable is manipulated you are part of this group.

What is the Experimental Group? 

300

Inferential statistics attempts to answer how likely is it that the results of the experiment are by this.

What is luck or by chance?

400

This is closely related to the standard deviation.

What is the Variance?

400

This research method that thoroughly qualitative study of a specific individual.

What is Case Study?

400

This researcher used scientific method and principles in research of wild chimpanzees. 

Who is Jane Goodall?

400

This prophecy is not likely to happen in a double-blind approach.

What is Self-Fulfilling Prophecy?

400

This is used to measure the variability of data.

What is Standard Deviation?

500

This is the type of distribution that has two modes.

What is Bimodal?

500

This research method provides research in which each subgroup is represented proportionally in a sample of a population.

What is a Cross-Sectional Study?

500

This Psychologist conducted an experiment that examined individuals' willingness to harm others when instructed to do so.

Who is Stanley Milgram?

500

Stratified samples are similar to this samples because the help researchers obtain representative samples.  

What are Random Samples?

500

Data organized to show how often a specific value occurs is called this.

What is Frequency Distribution?