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Duplicate of AP Psychology: Research Methods
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A review of key terms, concepts, and people associated with #research methodology
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A measure of variability in data
Operational definition
Central tendency
Standard deviation
Statistical significance
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Occurs when an extraneous variable makes it difficult to sort out the effects of the IV
Double-blind procedure
Sampling bias
Experimenter bias
Confounding of variables
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Research strategy i/w neither subjects nor experimenters know which condition subjects are in
Double-blind procedure
Single-blind procedure
Random assignment
Random sampling
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The spread or dispersion of data, including the extent to which scores vary from the mean
Statistical significance
Variability
Central tendency
Standard deviation
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Descriptive statistic & measure of central tendency; exact halfway point of data distribution
Correlation coefficient
Median
Mode
Mean
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Judgment inferred from statistics that probability of observed findings occurring b/chance= low
Validity
Statistical significance
Standard deviation
Variability
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A condition or event that an experimenter manipulates in order to observe its impact
Independent variable
Correlation coefficient
Extraneous variable
Dependent variable
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The score that occurs most frequently
Mode
Median
Mean
Correlation coefficient
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Precisely defines ea. variable in study in terms of operations needed to produce/measure them
Operational definition
Theory
Data collection techniques
Hypothesis
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A link or association between variables such that one can be predicted from the other
Correlation
Validity
Causation
Reliability
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Distribution of subjects in experiment i/w each has equal chance of being assigned to any group
Random sampling
Single-blind procedure
Random assignment
Double-blind procedure
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The variable that results from the manipulation in an experiment
Extraneous variable
Dependent variable
Independent variable
Placebo effect
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Studied experimenter bias, a researcher's unintended influence on the behavior of subjects
Stanley Schacter
Philip Zimbardo
Neal Miller
Robert Rosenthal
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A larger group from which a sample is drawn and to which the researcher wishes to generalize
Control group
Experimental group
Population
Sample
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A tentative statement about the expected relationship between two or three variables
Theory
Hypothesis
Peer review
Operational definition
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Effects that occur when subjects experience change due to expectations (or to "fake" treatment)
Placebo effects
Replication
Confounding of variables
Sampling bias
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Exists when a sample is not representative of the population from which it was drawn
Experimenter bias
Confounding of variables
Sampling bias
Social desirability bias
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The statistic that indicates the degree and direction of relationship between variables
Mean
Median
Mode
Correlation coefficient
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Occurs when a researcher's expectations influence the results of a study
Experimenter bias
Social desirability bias
Sampling bias
Participant bias
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A system of interrelated ideas used to explain a set of observations
Anecdotal evidence
Hypothesis
Theory
Response set
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A periodical that publishes technical and scholarly material within a discipline
Theory
Case study
Survey
Journal
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An in-depth, generally subjective, investigation of an individual subject
Naturalistic observation
Case study
Correlational research
Experiment
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The group in an experiment that is not exposed to manipulation of the independent variable
Experimental group
Population
Control group
Sample
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The group in an experiment that is exposed to manipulation of the independent variable
Experimental group
Control group
Sample
Population
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The arithmetic average
Mean
Correlation coefficient
Mode
Median
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Research method in which IVs are manipulated and which permits causal interpretation
Case study
Correlational research
Naturalistic observation
Experiment
