Random Dancing
What are the three different types of research methods we have reviewed
This method is used often by using case studies, surveys, or naturalistic observations
Descriptive Methods
A testable prediction, often implied by a theory
Hypothesis
What is it called when information about the participant is held as a secret?
Anonymity/ privacy
What is the animal that scientists always say is right?
The Rat
The tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen it. (Also known as the I-Knew-it-all-along-phenomenon)
Hindsight Bias
This Method Associates different factors or variables.
Correlational Method
A carefully worded statement/definition of the exact procedures (operations) used in a research study.
Operational Definition
what do we call it when Participants must agree to participate
informed consent
what do we call it when We tend to think we know more than we do
Overconfidence
A Variable other than the factor being studied that might influence a study’s result.
Confounding
This method Manipulate variables to discover their effects
Experimental
An explanation using an integrated set of principles that organizes observations and predicts behaviors or events
Theory
What is it called when the researcher must explain the true purpose of the experiment after it has occurred?
Debriefing
What are the three key elements of the scientific attitude
Curiosity
Skepticism
Humility
This type of statistics allows numerical data to infer from sample data the probability of something being true of a population.
Inferential Statistics
This is the statistical index of the relationship between two things
Repeating the essence of a research study, usually with different participants in different situations to see whether the basic finding can be reproduced.
Replicate
This is the committee that reviews research studies involving humans for ethics
IRB
Little Hans was an example of what type of research
Case Studies
What is the percentage that the majority of the population falls within?
68%
What is the value that helps us understand if something is statistically significant
P=0.5
a group of people, objects, or items that are taken from a larger population for measurement. It should be representative of the population to ensure that we can generalize the findings from the research to the population as a whole
Sample
This is the study that led to regulations regarding the rights of human participants. We discussed 2. Name One.
Tuskegee Syphilis study
Little Albert
A descriptive technique for obtaining the self-reported attitudes or behaviors of a particular group, usually by questioning a representative, of the group.
Survey