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Scientific method steps (7)

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1. Theory/observation/identify problem
2. Hypothesis/research questions
3. Design the study
4. Collect the data
5. Results
6. Modify or replicate
7. Theory/share

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What are correlations?

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Show relationship between variables. Do not prove anything but suggest an effect.

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Positive and negative correlations

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Positive would be increase in income while increasing the amount of hours.

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Negative would be increase in hours while decreasing in the income.

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Population

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Potential research participants

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Sample

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Portion of population selected for research

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Two types of samples

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1. Random
2. Stratified

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Sample drawn so that identified subgroups of a population are represented proportionately in the sample

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Stratified sample

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Sample drawn so that each member of the population has an equal chance of being selected to participate

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Random sample

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Independent variable

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Manipulated to measure effect

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Dependent variable

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Measured results in the experiment

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Experiment grouops

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Get treatment while other groups do not

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Control groups

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Do not receive medications

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Identify the following:

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Sleeping pill:
Alertness:
Received pill:
No pill:

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Identify the following:

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Sleeping pill: Independent variable
Alertness: Dependent variable
Received pill: Experiment group
No pill: Control group

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Research conducted in an effort to find solution to particular problems

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Applied research

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Science that studies behavior and mental processes

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Psychology

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Set of hypothesized statements about the relationship among events

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Theory

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School of psychology that argues that the mind consists of three basic elements: sensations, feelings, and images that combine to form experience.

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Structuralism

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School of psychology that emphasize the use or functions of the mind rather than the elements of experience.

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Functionalism

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School of psychology that defines psychology as the study of observable behavior and studies relationships between stimuli and responses.

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Behaviorism

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School of psychology that emphasizes the tendency to organize perceptions into wholes and to integrate separate stimuli into meaningful patterns

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Gestalt psychology

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School of psychology that emphasizes importance of unconscious motives and conflicts as determinants of human behavior

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Psychoanalysis

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School of psychology that seeks to understand the nature of the links between biological processes and structures such as the functioning of the brain, endocrine system, and heredity, on the one hand, and behavior and mental processes, on the other.

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Biological perspective

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A school of psychology in the behaviorist tradition that includes cognitive factors in the explanation and prediction of behavior; formerly termed social learning theory.

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Social-cognitive theory

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View that focuses on roles of ethnicity, gender, culture, and socioeconomic status in behavior and mental processes

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Sociocultural perspective

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A study in which neither the subjects or observes know who have gotten treatment

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Double blind

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Unaware of whether or not one has gotten treatment

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Blind

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Bogus treatment that has the appearance of being real

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Placebo

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Specific statement about behavior or mental processes tested through research

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Hypothesis