Research Terms
This is the tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have predicted it all along.
Hindsight Bias
What is the term for the unconscious tendency of researchers to treat groups differently in order to confirm a hypothesis?
Experimenter Bias
Observing people in their natural environment without interacting is called ___________.
Naturalistic Observation
After failing a math test, Jordan starts avoiding homework. A psychologist believes this behavior is due to punishment and reinforcement patterns.
What is behavioral perspective
What is the most frequently occurring number in a dataset?
What is the mode?
What is it called when a person focuses only on information that supports their existing beliefs?
Confirmation Bias
In what type of experiment are both the participants and researchers kept unaware of group assignments?
Double Blind
What method involves an in-depth investigation of a single person or small group?
Case Study
A psychologist studying brain chemistry and hormones would be using this approach?
What is the biological perspective?
What is it called when results can be repeated and are consistent?
What is the reliabitity?
A statement predicting a relationship between two variables is called a __________.
Hypothesis
What is the relationship called where the presence of one variable predicts the presence of another?
Postivite Correlation
What do we call mean, median, and mode as a group?
What is central tendency
This perspective emphasizes personal growth, free will, and self-actualization
What is the humanistic perspective?
What kind of research manipulates a variable to establish cause and effect?
What is an experiment?
What term describes the group of individuals on whom a study is actually conducted?
Sample
What kind of correlation exists if the presence of one variable predicts the absence of another?
Negative Correlation
What process ensures that a study is critiqued and improved by experts before being published?
This approach explains behavior in terms of survival, reproduction, and natural selection.
What is the evolutionary perspective?
What is it called when research measures what it’s supposed to measure?
What is validity?
What term describes the group of individuals on whom a study is actually conducted?
Confounding Variable
This term refers to the measurement of the relationship between two variables but does not imply causation.
Correlation
Name both steps in ethical research: one required before the study begins, and one required after it ends.
what is informed consent and debriefing
This perspective examines how unconscious drives and childhood experiences influence behavior.
What is the psychodynamic perspective?
What group does not receive the independent variable in an experiment?
Control Group