Research Methods
Having other experts evaluate your research.
What is peer review?
The variable you manipulate.
What is the independent variable?
The average of a dataset.
What is the mean?
Participants must agree to take part after being informed.
What is informed consent?
Favoring information that supports your beliefs.
What is confirmation bias?
Repeating a study to confirm results.
What is replication?
The variable you measure.
What is the dependent variable?
The middle value in an ordered dataset.
What is the median?
Keeping participant data private.
What is confidentiality?
Believing you “knew it all along” after something happens.
What is hindsight bias?
Consistency of results across time.
What is reliability?
A hidden variable that affects results.
What is a confounding variable?
The most frequent value.
What is the mode?
Explaining the study afterward.
What is debriefing?
Being more confident than correct.
What is overconfidence?
Measuring what you are supposed to measure.
What is validity?
Assigning participants by chance.
What is random assignment?
A number from -1 to 1 showing relationship strength.
What is the correlation coefficient?
The perspective focusing on unconscious processes.
What is the psychodynamic perspective?
A testable prediction.
What is a hypothesis?
A detailed study of one individual or group
What is a case study?
When neither researcher nor participant knows group assignment.
What is a double-blind study?
A bell-shaped curve where most scores cluster near the center.
What is a normal curve?
The approach combining biological, psychological, and social factors.
What is the biopsychosocial perspective?
The idea that a claim must be able to be proven wrong.
What does falsifiable mean?