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15 Cards in this Set
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Applied Psychology
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The branch of psychology concerned with everyday, practical problems.
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Empiricism
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The premise that knowledge should be acquired through observation.
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Behavior
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Any overt (observable) response or activity by an organism.
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Culture
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The widely shared customs, beliefs, values, norms, institutions, and other products of a community that are transmitted socially across generations.
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Theory
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A system of interrelated ideas that is used to explain a set of observations.
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Introspection
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Careful, systematic observation of one's own conscious experience.
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Ethnocentrism
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The tendency to view one's own group as superior to others and as the standard for judging the worth of foreign ways.
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Confounding Variables
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A condition that exists whenever 2 variables are linked together in a way that makes it difficult to sort out their independent effects.
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Correlation
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fThe extent to which two variables are related to each other.
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Correlation Coefficient
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A numerical index of the degree of relationship between two variables.
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Descriptive Statistics
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Statistics that are used to organize and summarize data.
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Experimenter Bias
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A phenomenon that occurs when a researcher's expectations or preferences about the outcome of a study influence the results obtained.
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Extraneous Variables
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Any variables other than the independent variable that seem likely to influence the dependent variable in a specific study.
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Inferential Statistics
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Statistics that are used to interpret data and draw conclusions.
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Operational Definition
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A definition that describes the actions or operations that will be made to measure or control a variable.
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