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Control

The essential ingredient of science, distinguishing it from non-scientific procedures
Experiment
When scientist manipulate one or more factors and observe the effects of this manipulation on behavior.
Independent Variables
The factors that the researcher controls or manipulates in order to determine their effect on behavior.
Dependent Variables
The measures of behavior that are used to access the effect (if any) of the independent variables.
Construct
A concept or idea.
Operational Definition
Explains a concept solely in terms of the observable procedures used to produce and measure it.
Validity
The truthfulness of a measurement.

Reliability

The consistency of a measurement.
Correlation
When two different measurements of the same people, events, or things vary together.

Causal Inference

When there is a co-variation of events, a time-order relationship, and the elimination of plausible alternative causes.

Confounding

When two potentially effective independent variables are allowed to co-vary simultaneously.

Applied Research

Research on creating change.

Basic Research

Seeks primarily to understand behavior and mental processes.

Theory

A logically organized set of propositions (claims, statements, assertions) that serves to define events (concepts), describe relationships among these events, and explain the occurrence of these events,