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| The belief that accurate knowledge can be acquired through observation |
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| Where do psychologists get their hypotheses? |
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| A falsifiable prediction made by a theory |
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The variable that is manipulated in an experiment
Ex) Exposure to media violence |
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| The group of people who are treated in a particular way, as compared to the control group, in an experiment |
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| The group of people who are not treated in a particular way that the experimental group is treated in an experiment |
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| The variable that is measured in a study |
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| The characteristic of an experiment that establishes the causal relationship between variables (better than 95%) |
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| A property of an experiment in which the variables have been operationally defined in a normal, typical, or realistic way |
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