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How do you know?
So you want to do Science
It's all Variables
I've got an idea!
How to Measure
100
Accepting the information in a professor's lecture without considering the credibility of the information exemplifies a belief in _____.
What is authority?
100
A research question stated in a way that can be tested
What is a hypothesis?
100
Events or qualities that can assume more than one value
What is a variable?
100
We can use _______ for ideas for research studies but can't rely on it because we're often wrong
What is common sense?
100
Measurement scale that lacks numeric properties
What is nominal?
200
Isaac has decided to purchase several copies of a new children's book because he has a feeling that the availability of this book will be scarce in the future. Which of the following best explains Isaac's behavior? 
What is intuition?
200
Scientific principle that it must be possible to make an observation that would show the hypothesis is false and can be rejected
What is falsifiability?
200
A factor that is selected and manipulated or controlled by the experimenter
What is an independent variable?
200
This source of an idea comes from personal experiences
What is observation of an actual event?
200
Measurement scale used if a professor ranks subjects based on students' preferences identified through a survey.
What is ordinal?
300
Scientific _____ means that ideas must be evaluated on the basis of careful logic and results from scientific investigations.
What is skepticism?
300
 _____ is the process by which scientists with expertise in a particular field assess a study before it is published in a top-quality scientific journal. 
What is peer review?
300
Studying the consumption of alcohol on midterm grades. Midterm grades is the ___________
What is dependent variable?
300
Many ________ research studies are conducted in an attempt to solve practical problems
What is applied?
300
Measurement scale used for the number of guesses it takes to answer a jeopardy question correctly
What is ratio?
400
Fake science in which scientific terms and demonstrations are used to substantiate claims that have no basis in scientific research
What is pseudoscience?
400
These play a central role in the scientific method
What are data?
400
If you observe this relationship between variables, it does NOT mean that it is a causal relationship
What is a correlation?
400
This is a powerful explanation for a wide range of phenomena grounded in actual data from prior research & numerous hypotheses
What is a theory?
400
Measurement scale used to assess ratings of usefulness of this jeopardy review by students using a 5-point scale ranging from not useful at all to very useful
What is interval?
500
_____ is the idea that knowledge is based on observations.
What is empiricism?
500
These are the 4 goals of behavioral science:
What are describe behavior, predict behavior, determine cause of behavior, & explain behavior?
500
Studying the effect of noise on the ability to play music. The results show that the time of day has an impact on the ability to play music. Time is a _________ variable.
What is extraneous or confounding variable?
500
New ideas are often generated from old ones. This is an example of using ________ as an idea for a research study.
What is past research?
500
When the conclusions of research are based on the interpretations of the investigator, _____ research has been employed. However, if the conclusions are based upon statistical analyses of the data, _____ research has been employed. 
What is qualitative; quantitative?