AP Psych Unit 2 Review

We exaggerate our ability to foresee the outcome of past events is known as...

In RESEARCH, informed consent is a concern of....

The scatter plot circled best demonstrates...

A statistical procedure that combines the results of many studies

In a drug treatment study, participants given a pill containing no actual drug are receive a(n)

What type of research procedure uses random assignment? 

The participants in a study do not know if they are receiving actual medicine or a placebo...

To find the extent to which economic status predicts political party a psychologist would use

Dr. J believes his patient is bipolar because the patients brain chemistry-Dr. J is a ___ 

Which research method studies 1 person & tries to carefully draw conclusions based on evidence?

Research strategy: neither subjects nor experimenters know which condition subjects are in

This can affect the dependent variable, but it is NOT the independent variable

In order for others to replicate your study, the researcher MUST include 

Judgment inferred from statistics that probability of findings occurring because of chance= LOW

Study predicting that high school sports build character...which is the dependent variable? 

Statistical procedures used to interpret data in an experiment and draw conclusions

Study examining if t.v. violence increases aggression in kids.  What is the IV? 

what type of variable is measured in the experiment? 

Occurs when a researcher's expectations influence the results of a study