A list of questions asked of a sample population to make conclusions about a target population.
What is a survey?
100
Participants who do not receive the experimental treatment.
What is the control group?
100
When one variable increases, another variable increases as well.
e.g. Violent video games and aggression
What is a positive correlation?
100
The average of a set of numbers.
e.g. 10 + 15 +20 +5 +5 +5 = 60/6 (6 numbers) = 10
What is the mean?
100
Stating a problem, gathering information, forming a hypothesis, testing a hypothesis, recording data, making conclusions, and repeating the research are all components of...
What is the scientific method?
200
An in-depth study about one person, a small group, an event, or a setting.
What is a case study?
200
Participants who receive the experimental treatment.
What is the experimental group?
200
When one variable increases, another variable decreases.
e.g. car mileage and car value
What is a negative correlation?
200
The middle number in a set.
e.g. 3 5 9 12 17 20 24...12 is in the middle.
What is the median?
200
A code of conduct when performing experimental research.
What are ethics?
300
A study that occurs over a period of many years or even decades.
e.g. cohort, panel, or retrospective
What is a longitudinal study?
300
An experiment where the experimenters know who is receiving a particular treatment.
What is a single blind experiment?
300
When there is no relationship between two variables.
e.g. Eating apples and visits to the doctor.
What is a zero correlation?
300
The most frequent number in a set of numbers.
e.g. 1 3 5 4 5 3 5 2 5 5 6 5 2 5 5...5 is the most frequent number.
What is the mode?
300
Phineas Gage is one of the most well-known examples of this kind of study.
What is a case study?
400
An experiment conducted in a well-controlled environment.
e.g. The Milgram Experiment
What is a laboratory experiment?
400
An experiment where neither the participants or the experimenters know who is receiving a particular treatment.
What is a double-blind study?
400
The characteristic of a psychology experiment that is manipulated or changed.
e.g. Feeding people apples to see what happens.
What is the independent variable?
400
A small number of participants selected to represent a larger population.
e.g. 150 RHS students
What is a sample?
400
The Milgram experiment is one of the most well-known experiments that demonstrates the importance of ________ in experiments.
What are ethics?
500
This kind of study involves observing subjects in their natural environment.
What is naturalistic observation?
500
A substance with no known medical effects, but sometimes participants in an experiment belief that it does have a treatment to it.
e.g. sterile water, saline solution or a sugar pill.
What is a placebo?
500
The variable that is being measured in an experiment.
e.g. Apples make no difference with visits to the doctor.
What is the dependent variable?
500
The population the sample is designed to make conclusions about.
e.g. All of RHS
What is a target population?
500
Ivan Pavlov's experiment with dogs led to the term classical conditioning. This experiment is one of the most well-known examples of this kind of experiment.