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16 Cards in this Set
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Advocate
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A professional person whose goal is to represent the interests of another party.
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Applied Scientist
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Scientists who apply their knowledge to sovling real-world problems.
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Basic Scientist
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Scientists who study a phenomenon in order to understand it, without concern for whether their work will be used in solving realworld problems.
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Confounding Variables
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Variables that distort the results of a study or that compete with the independent variable as explanations of a result.
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Correlation
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A measure of the degree to which one variable is related to another.
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Empowerment
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The process of increasing power to affect change in one's life.
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Experiment
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A scientific technique for understanding a phenomenon that usually involves manipulating variables and measuring an outcome.
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Hate Crimes
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Criminal acts that are intended to harm or intimidate people because of their race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, or other minority group status.
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Hypothesis
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A tentative assumption that is tested in a scientific study.
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Operational Definition
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The definition of a variable according to the operations or means used to measure it.
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Policy Evaluator
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An activity performed by a psychologist in the role of evaluation resercher, in which the effectiveness of some govermental or other intervetion is determined.
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Quasi-Experiment
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A study that "comes close" to being a true experiment but lacks one or more of the crucial elements of an experiment, such as random assignment of participants to groups.
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Replication
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The repetition of a study to determine if results are similar to those of a previous study.
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Sampling
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The methods used to select research participants.
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Scientific Method
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A set of research principles and methods that allow scientists to reach valic conclusions.
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Theory
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A set of propositions and related hypotheses used to predict and explain a phenomenon.
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