AP Psych Review Unit 1&2

Broad view that attributes disease outcome to the variable interaction of biological factors

The difference between the largest score and the smallest score

The extent to which behavior results from heredity or experience

The subgroup of the population that participates in a study

Seeing mind and body as different aspects of the same thing

The factor the researchers manipulates in a controlled experiment (the cause).

A method of interpretation that focuses on contrast between elements in a superficial diversity

Doing again a method used in a previous experiment to if it will yield the same results.

Theory that human and animal behavior can be explained in terms of conditioning

Prediction of how two or more factors are likely to be related to each other.

Respondents from a population take a standardized questionnaire administered by a researcher

Measures the average difference between each score and the mean of the data set.

The most common data point

The average of your data set

Mental processes such as attention, language use, memory, perception, and problem solving

An organized whole that is perceived as more than the sum of its parts

Statistical Significance Means Your Results

Which of the following are required Ethical guidelines in psychology research?

Theoretical approach that attempts to explain useful mental and psychological traits

Welfare and Charity getting different responses in a survey is an example of...

ALL of the individuals in the group to which a study applies

A treatment given, usually to the control group, that has no active ingredients.

Which of the following research methods can determine cause and effect?

Why is an Experiment the only way to determine cause and effect?

the comparison group in an experiment

A number that represents the linear relationship of two variables or sets of data.

Division of the sample so that every individual has an equal chance of being put in any group.

The Application of the principles of biology to the study of physiology

Uncontrolled factors that cause differences between the experimental and the control group.

The behavior or mental process that is measured in an experiment or quasi-experiment case study

Theory where mental states are identified by what they do rather than by what they are made of

The spread or dispersion of a set of research data (the distribution).

Numbers that summarize a set of research data

Statistics used to interpret data and draw conclusions

To reveal the unconscious content of a client's psyche in order to alleviate psychic tension

When both the researchers and the subjects don't know who received the treatment

The subgroup of the sample that receives the treatment or independent variable.

Look at human behavior through the eyes of the person doing the behaving

Which of the following are examples of central tendency?

Can suggest a relationship exists between variables

This technique involves observing subjects in their natural environment

A description of the specific procedure used to determine the presence of a variable.

Choosing of members of a population so that every individual has an equal chance of selection.

Seeing mind and body as different aspects of the same thing

The process whereby organisms adapt to the environment to survive and produce more offspring

The belief that the independent variable will have an effect, which gives it that effect.

Scientific procedure to make a discovery, test a hypothesis, or demonstrate a known fact