AP Psych Review

the comparison group in an experiment

Statistics used to interpret data and draw conclusions

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

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

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

Numbers that summarize a set of research data

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

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

The most common data point

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

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

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

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

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

The subgroup of the population that participates in a study

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

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

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

Seeing mind and body as different aspects of the same thing

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

Which of the following are examples of central tendency?

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

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

This technique involves observing subjects in their natural environment

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

Statistical Significance Means Your Results

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

The extent to which behavior results from heredity or experience

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

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

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

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

Theoretical approach that attempts to explain useful mental and psychological traits

Can suggest a relationship exists between variables

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

The difference between the largest score and the smallest score

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

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

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

The average of your data set

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

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

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

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

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

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