AP Psychology Unit 2 Review

A theory is a(n) ?

Placebo is Latin for?

The enduring behaviors, traits, attitudes, values,and ideas being passed on through generations

A ____ is when both doctors and participants are unaware if they have a treatment or a placebo

A skewed distribution is ___?

Numerical data that's used to measure and describe characteristics of groups is __?

Technique where one person is studied in depth with hopes of revealing a universal idea is a ?

Data that allows someone to generalize the probability being true to a population is called ?

The ____ is number that occurs the most

A Random assignment happens by

An illusory correlation is

The Experimental group is

A(n) ____ is when an observer manipulates 1 or more factors to observe affects on behavior is a

"Students who continuously miss school, tend to have lower test scores" This is an example of?

A confounding variable is

A graphed cluster of dots that represents the relation between variables is a

The ____ is the middle number of the data collected

People believe that, after learning the outcome, they would've known the answer, is know as...?

Observation of data in natural situations w/out manipulating or influencing the outcome is a ?

The amount of people in a group being studied which samples may be drawn from is a...?

Repeating a study using different people and scenarios to try and observe any changes is a ?

A sample that fairly represents a population because everyone has an equal chance of inclusion

A placebo effect is

A sampling bias is ?

Participants are told just enough about the experiment to choose if they want to participate.

Statistical statement of how likely it is that an obtained result happened by chance is called

A Correlation Coefficient is___?

This is an example of a

When participants are told the reasoning behind the experiment after it's done, it's known as?

A Control Group is

Thinking that doesn't blindly accept arguments or conclusions, it analyzes every detail.

This is an example of a

A carefully worded statement that states exact procedures in a study is called a(n) ?

A question produced by a theory is called a ?

What is an independent variable

"The more students study in school, the higher the test scores they will receive" This is a __?

A normal curve is ___?

___ is the extent to which a test or experiment measure or predicts what it supposed to.

If you were in lunch and asked people to answer a certain question, you would be doing a ?

A measure of how much variables change together and predict each other is called ?

The variable being observed is

Correlation DOES prove causation

The ___ is the average of all the data collected