Ap Psych Chapter 2

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case study

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a study design in wich a psychologist often a therapist observes one person over a long period of time

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confounding variable

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variables influence on the dependent variable cannot be sepperated from the independent variable being examined

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control group

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a group of research participants wha are treated in exactly the same manner as the experimental group except that they do not recieve the independent variable or treatment

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debriefing

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the explanation of the purposes of a study following data collection

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dependent variable

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in an experiment the outcome or response to the experimental manipulation

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double blind studies

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studies in which neither the participants not the researchers administrating the treatment know who has been assigned to the experiemental and controll group

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experiment

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a research design that includes independent and dependent variables and random assignment of participants to control and experimental groups or conditions

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experimental group

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a group consisting of those participants who will recieve the treatment or whatever is predicted to change behavior

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hypothesis

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specific informed and testable prediction of the outcome of a particular set of condtions in a research design

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independent variable

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proporty that is manipulated by the experiment under controlled conditions to determine weather it causes the predicted outcome of an experiment

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Institutional review board (IRB)

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organizations that evaluate research proposals to make sure research involving humans does not cause har or distress

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mean, median, mode

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mean: arthmic average of a series of numbers, Median: the score that sepperates the lower half and the upper half scores, Mode: statistic that represents the most commonly occuring score or value

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naturalistic observation

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study in which the researcher unobtrusivly observes and records behavior in the real world

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placebo

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a substance or treatment that appears identical to the actual treatment but lacks the active substance

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population

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the entire group a resercher is interested in for example all humans all adolecents all boys all girls

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pseudoscience

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claims presented as scientific that are not supported by evidence obtained with scientific method

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questionnaires

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self report instruments on which respondents indicate the extent to which they agree or disagree with a series of of statements as they apply to their parsonality

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random assignment

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method used to assign participants to different research conditions so that all participants have some chance of being in a specific group

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random sample

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Take a random group of people out of a population

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replication

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the repatition of a study to confirm the results essential to the scientific process

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representative sample

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a research sample that accuratly reflects the population of people one is studying

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sample

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subsets of the population studied in a research project

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self-fulfilling prophecy

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a statement theta affects events to cause the predition to become true

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single-blind studies

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studies in which participants do not know the experimental condition (group) to which they have been assigned