Ch. 2 Research Methods

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Empiricism

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Any attempt to acquire knowledge by observing objects or events

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Operational Definition

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A description of an abstract property in terms of a concrete condition that can be measure

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Group assignment

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reason why we can say what things cause other things to happen

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Demand Characteristics

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Those aspects of an observatioinal setting that cause people to behave as they think an observer wants or expects them to behave

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Third-Variable Correlation

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The fact that two variables may be correlated only because they are both caused by a third variable

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debriefing

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a verbal description of the true nature and purpose of a study that psychologists provide to people after they have participated in the study

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external validity

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A characteristic of an experiment in which the independent and dependent variables are operationally defined in a normal, typical, or realistic way

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internal validity

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the characteristic of an experiment that allows one to draw accurate inferences about the causal relationship between an independent and dependent variable

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demand characteristics

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cues that tell participants what is expected of them and what the expeimenter hopes to find

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Hawthorne Effect

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Observation of a behavior changes behavior

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Selective Attrition

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certain people who start study and leave may be different from the people who stay and are there for the end
ex. College freshmen who switch majors