I'm Drowning In Research
Why Are You So MEAN?
Is This Allowed?
THIS IS ALL AN EXPERIMENT!
So...What's The Correlation Here?
100

This research method is used when researchers want to study how people naturally behave.

What is Naturalistic Observation?

100

This is the average of a set of data.

What is Mean?
100

This ethical guideline is when a researcher keeps all of their participants names and information confidential.

What is Confidentiality?

100

This is the variable that is manipulated and this is the variable that is being measured.

What are the Independent and Dependent Variables?

100

True or False. Correlation can prove Causation.

What is False?

200

This research method is a method using a variety of questions to gather opinions and behaviors from a sample and is NOT an answer for the AAQ

What is a Survey?

200

This is the result of subtracting the highest value in a data set from the lowest value.

What is Range?

200

This ethical guideline allows researchers to lie to their participants.

What is Deception?
200

This is the definition of a variable that allows the variable to be directly measured.

What is an Operational Definition?

200

This is what represents the direction of a relationship and strength of a relationship.

What is Correlation Coefficient?

300

This research method focuses on a single person for a long period of time to gather detailed information.

What is a Case Study?

300

This is how much a score varies from the mean .

What is Standard Deviation?

300

A researcher held an experiment that left their participants with minor mental health issues and therefore broke this ethical guideline.

What is Protect from Harm?

300

This is the group that is not subjected to the independent variable.

What is the Control Group?

300

A positive or negative 1 represents this type of correlation.

What is a Perfect Correlation?

400

This research method studies the same group of people over a long period of time.

What is a Longitudinal Study?

400

This percent accounts for one standard deviation from the mean.

What is 68%?
400

A researcher held an experiment and did not tell their participants the true reason of the experiment after it was over therefore they broke this ethical guideline.

What is Debrief?
400

This is the process of assigning subjects to the experimental or control group randomly, so that each subject has an equal chance of being in either group.

What is Random Assignment?

400

Variables that are related in opposite directions are this type of correlation.

What is Negative Correlation?

500

A disadvantage of this research method is that it is not appropriate for certain types of research such as studies on developmental changes.

What is a Cross Sectional Study?
500

A P value below this number is what researcher want in order to prove that their research is statistically significant.

What is 0.05?
500

This is the board that approves or denies experiments based on the ethics of the experiment.

What is the Institutional Review Board?
500

The phenomenon in which expectations of the participants in the study can influence their behavior.

What is the Placebo Effect?

500

A scatter plot that has data points all over the place shows this type of correlation.

What is No Correlation?