General
The scientific definition of psychology
What is “psychology is the scientific study of behaviour and mental processes”?
Variables that potentially can distort the relationship between the IV and the DV
What are confounding variables?
Type of observation where the sample know they are being watched
What is overt observation?
Refers to the degree to which the results can be trusted to reflect reality
What is credibility?
Name of child who was conditioned into being afraid of all things furry in ethical questionable experiment
Who is Little Albert?
The 45th President of the United States of America
Who is Donald Trump?
The three types of quantitative research
What are experimental studies, descriptive studies and correlational studies?
Type of observation where the sample do not know they are being watched
What is covert observation?
Refers to the extent to which the results can be applied beyond the sample
What is generalizability?
Creatures that sometimes unfortunately die in the name of science
What are animals?
The third largest city in Østfold
What is Moss?
The ideal approach to make the sample representative
What is random sampling?
When a small number of participants are invited and asked to invite more people they know who are also of interest for the research
What is snowball sampling?
Expressing constructs in terms of observable behavior
What is operationalization?
This consideration must be taken into account prior the experiment if researchers will have to bend ethical guidelines
What is cost-benefit analysis?
The least populated US state
What is Wyoming?
Refers to the extent to which findings can be generalized from the experiment to other settings or situations
What is ecological validity?
The five types of qualitative research methods
What are observation, interview, focus group, content analysis and case study?
Characterizes the quality of operationalizations
What is construct validity?
The six main ethical considerations
What are informed consent, protection from harm, anonymity and confidentiality, withdrawal from participation, deception and debriefing?
The years of the American civil war
What is 1861-1865?
The nine threats to internal validity
What are selection, history, maturation, testing effect, instrumentation, regression to the mean, mortality, demand characteristics and experimenter bias?
The tendency to answer regular questions honestly, but distort answers to sensitive questions
What is sensitivity bias?
Occurs when the wording of a question is phrased so that the respondent is inclined to answer in a certain way
What is leading question bias?
The six ethical considerations in reporting the result
What are data fabrication, plagiarism, publication credit, sharing research data for verification, handling of sensitive information and social implications of reporting scientific results?