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What is psychology? |
Scientific study of behaviors/mental processes |
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What is an experiment? |
Research procedure in which psychologist manipulates one variable & measures the effect on a 2nd variable |
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What is a variable? |
Any characteristic of an object/event/person which can take 2 or more values |
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What is the independent variable? |
The one that's manipulated in an experiment |
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Whats the dependent variable? |
What's being measured in the experiment, "depends" on how you manipulated the independent variable |
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What are the essential parts of an experiment? |
Control group, random assignment |
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Why do you need a control group? |
They are the group you compare to the experimental group |
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Why do you need random assignment? |
You assign based on chance and it gets rid of variables besides the one being looked at that can affect the results |
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What is correlational research? |
Looking for a relationship between 2 measures variables |
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What is emipricism? |
Using observation, collecting data that can be verified |
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Who's the father of psychology? |
Wundt |
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What are the different ways to collect data? |
Case studies, naturalistic observation, experiments |
