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27 Cards in this Set
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Why do Psychologist use experiments?
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To determine Cause and Effect relationships.
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What is the experimental group exposed to?
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The independent variable.
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What does replications refer to?
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Research studies that are repeated under different conditions in order to ensure reliability of the results.
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What is the control group exposed to?
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Nothing.
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Why use random assignment?
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To ensure that each participant has an equal chance to be in the study.
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Research method
1. 2. Proposing a Hypothesis 3. Designing and conducting a study. .4 Analyzing the data 5. Communicating the results and building theories of behavior |
Defining a research problem
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Research method
1. Defining a research problem 2. 3. Designing and conducting a study. .4 Analyzing the data 5. Communicating the results and building theories of behavior |
Proposing a Hypothesis
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Research method
1. Defining a research problem 2. Proposing a Hypothesis 3. 4 Analyzing the data 5. Communicating the results and building theories of behavior |
Designing and conducting a study.
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Research method
1. Defining a research problem 2. Proposing a Hypothesis 3. Designing and conducting a study. .4 5. Communicating the results and building theories of behavior |
Analyzing the data
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Research method
1. Defining a research problem 2. Proposing a Hypothesis 3. Designing and conducting a study. .4 Analyzing the data 5. |
Communicating the results and building theories of behavior
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What do you manipulate in an experiment?
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The independent variable.
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The response of the manipulation of the independent variable is called ...
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The dependent variable.
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The experiment consists of two groups. What are they?
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the experimental group and the control group.
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An equal chance of being assigned to any one group is known as
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Random Assignment
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When subjects are not randomly assigned to groups is referred to as a
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Quasi experiment
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When researchers participants behavior changes because they know they are being studied or expectations.
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Subject bias
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An inactive substance give in place of a drug is called a
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Placebo
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When participants believe They are experiencing a change due to an administered drug which is areally a placebo.
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Placebo effect
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When the expectations of the researcher influence what is recorded or measured it is called
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researcher bias or observer bias
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To control the biases of subject and observer they use ...
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Double blind technique
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The single subject experiment involves only one subject but the independent variable is
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Systematically changed over time. Time is used as the control.
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Non experimental methods
1. 2. Naturalistic observation 3. Case study 4. Survey |
Correlational research
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Non experimental methods
1. Correlational research 2. 3. Case study 4. Survey |
Naturalistic observation
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Non experimental methods
1. Correlational research 2. Naturalistic observation 3. 4. Survey |
Case study
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Non experimental methods
1. Correlational research 2. Naturalistic observation 3. Case study 4. |
Survey
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Strengths of experiment research method
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It can make cause and effect relationships, and the researcher has control.
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Weakness
Experiment research method |
1. Sampling errors
2 Often hard to generalize to real world. |
