Experiment
A detailed study of a person with a brain injury.
What is a case study?
Members of population are chosen at random to complete a survey.
What is random sampling?
The relationship between two variables when one increases and one decreases.
What is negative correlation?
Known as periodoxial sleep, related to memory and when we dream,
What is REM?
The group not exposed to the independent variable used for baseline data.
What is control group?
Studying public eating habits while watching people at a restaurant.
What is naturalistic observation?
When a test produces the same results time after time, it would be considered this.
What is reliable?
The descriptive statistic that determines the arithmetic mean of scores.
What is mean?
Adjusts (dialates/constricts) amount of light coming into the eye.
What is pupil?
When participants have equal chance of being in the experimental or control group.
Testing the effectiveness of a new weightloss drug.
What is experiment?
Also known as extraneous, these are unwanted variables in research that may influence results.
What are confounding?
In regards to a correlation, 1 and -1 are the highest of these.
What is correlational coefficient?
The three different chemical messengers in the body.
What are neurotransmitters, endorphins, and hormones?
Specific terms that tell us what we are measuring in the hypothesis.
What are operational definitions?
Researching to see if the longer a couple is together then the more similar their political opinions are.
What is correlation?
All research must be specific so that any other researcher can _______ the study.
What is replicate?
The measure of how close scores are to the mean.
What is standard deviation?
One general intelligence theorized by Spearman.
What is g?
The researcher and the participants are unaware of what group they are being placed in the experiment is this type of study.
What is a double blind study?
Studying students reading abilities over the course of their elementary school years.
What is a longitudinal study?
When people believe a correlation exists, but it actually does not.
What is illusory correlation?
A symmetrical bell-shaped curve, where 68% of scores fall within one standard deviation of the mean would represent this.
What is normal distribution?
Type of processing where the brain uses prior knowledge and schemas.
What is top down?