Research Meth.
Research method in which the psychologist observes the subject in a natural setting without interfering
What is naturalistic observation?
Two ways in which researchers avoid a self-fulfilling prophecy.
What is using a single-blind or double-blind experiment?
There is a relationship between two or more variables.
What is a correlation?
the group to which an independent variable is applied.
What is the experimental group?
The method of experimental group assignment in which all participants have an equal chance of being assigned to either group.
What is a random assignment?
Research method in which information is obtained by asking many individuals a fixed set of questions
What is a survey?
An experiment where the participants nor the experimenters know which participants received which treatment.
What is a double-blind experiment?
A statistic that describes the direction and strength of the relationship between two sets of data.
What is a correlation coefficient?
A situation in which a researcher's expectations influence that person's own behavior, and thereby influence the participant's behavior.
What is a self-fulfilling prophecy?
Able to be disproven by experimental results.
What is falsifiable?
Research method in which data is collected about a group of participants over a number of years to assess how certain characteristics change or remain the same during development
What is a longitudinal study?
An experiment where the participants do not know if they have received the treatment or the placebo.
What is a single-blind experiment?
This occurs when the variables in an experiment move in the same direction.
What is a positive correlation?
The ability of an experimental design to consistently produce a given result.
What is reliability?
A reduction in the number of research participants in a study over the course of time.
What is attrition?
Research method in which data is collected from groups of participants of different ages and compared so that conclusions can be drawn about differences due to age
What is a cross-sectional study?
This is a testable prediction about how the world will behave if our idea is correct.
What is the hypothesis?
These are the geographical views of the strength and direction of correlations.
What are scatterplots?
A committee of individuals who review proposals for research that involve human participants.
What is an institutional review board?
Purposely misleading experiment participants in order to maintain the integrity of the experiment.
What is deception?
The two types of reasoning when the scientific process is circular as ideas are tested against the empirical world and empirical observations lead to new ideas.
What are deductive and inductive reasoning?
A change in a participant's illness or behavior that results from a belief that the treatment will have an effect, rather than the actual treatment.
What is the placebo effect?
These false correlations occur when people believe that relationships exist between two things when no such relationship exists.
What is an illusory correlation?
This is a written document that provides a written description of what participants can expect during an experiment.
What is an informed consent?
The historical practice of making a hole in the skull to allow evil spirits to leave the body, thus curing mental illness.
What is trephination?