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| a theoretical representation of some aspect of reality designed to allow testing of a hypothesis |
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| a school of psychological thought that believe the proper subject of study in psychology is observable behavior and not the mind |
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| a powerful series of related scientific hypotheses that have been tested repeatedly for validity |
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| measurement of relationship between two varieables |
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| objective state that most people agree is true, based on direct observation |
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| variable that is changes by other variables |
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| Thinker that developed Tabula Rasa |
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| Method used to address role of genetic factors in behavior |
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| mathematical methods used to summarize sets of data |
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| mathematical methods for helping researchers detemine how confident they can be in drawing general conclusions (inferences) form specific data sets |
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| effect of observers giving subtle cues to subjects that cause them to respond correctly |
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| a tentative scientific explanation of some phenomenon or related phenomena |
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| an organized and specific way of trying to answer questions and understanding the natural world |
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| a theoretical representation of some aspect of reality designed to allow testing of hypothesis |
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| results that anyone can obtain, at least approximately by following the same procedures |
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| a research design for testing hypotheses about cause-effect relationships, in which the researcher manipulates one variable (the independent variable in order to asses it effect on another variable (dependent variable). |
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| increase in variable coincides with a tendency for the other variable to increase |
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| an increase in one variable coincides with the tendency for the other to decrease |
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| any study in which the researcher does not manipulate an variable but observes or measures two or more variables to find relationships among them |
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| defines a variable in terms of specific procedures used to produce or measrue it , clear measurement of data in a variable |
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| abstract concepts that is not itself directly measurable or observable, but that can be presumed to give rise to responses and attributes that can be observed and measured |
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| a numeric measure of strength and direction of the relationship between two variables |
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| the description of behavior of individuals or sets of individuals without systematically investigating the relationships between specific variables |
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| an in-depth analysis of an individual, group, or event, as much info as possible |
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| any research study where subjects brought to specifically designated area setup to allow researcher to collect data or control conditions |
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| any research study conducted in a setting other than the laboratory |
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| the degree to which a measurement system actually measures the characteristic that it is suppose to measure |
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| the capacity of a measurement system to produce similar results each time it is used with a particular subject or set of subjects under a particular set of conditions. |
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| procedures in which people asked to rate or describe theri own behavior or mental state in some way |
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| includes all procedures by which researchers themselves observe and record the behavior of interest instead of relying on subjects self-description |
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| statistical procedues are mathematical aids for summarizing and interpreting data |
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| mathematical methods used to summarize sets of data |
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| mathematical methods for helping researchers detemine how confident they can be in draqing general conclusions (inferences) from specific data sets |
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| a technical term that refers to random variability in results |
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| a technical term that refers to NONRandom (directed) effects caused by some factor or factors outside (extraneous) to research hypothesis |
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| a subset of the population under study that is not representative of the population as a whole |
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| yields similar results each time it is used what a particular subject under a particular set of conditions. |
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| a measurement is valid if it measures or predicts what it is intended to measure or predict |
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| any variables other than the independent variable that seems likely to influence the dependent variable in a specific study |
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| a situation in which the independent vaiable is intertwined or mixed up with another, uncontrolled variable |
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| the characteristic of a study that allows us to conclude that the manipulation of the independent variable caused the observed changes in the dependent variable
*high when no confounding variables |
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| the degree to which a study's participants, stimuli, and procedures adequately reflect the world as it actually is
degree to which the results of a study can be generalized to other people, settings, and conditions |
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| Observer-expectancy effects |
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| any bias in research results that derives from the researcher's desire or expectation that a subject or set of subjects will behave in a certain way |
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| Subject-expectancy effect |
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| any bias in research results that derives from subjects' expectations or beliefs about how they should feel, or behave in response to variables imposed in the study |
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| in drug studies, an inactive substance given to subects assigend to the nondrug group |
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| in psychological research any effect on a subjects behavior or fellings that stems from the subject's expectations as to how he or she should behave or feel as a result of a particular treatment |
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| all individuals that we are interested in drawing a conclusion about |
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| subset of individuals drawn from larger population |
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| any variable that causes an effect on another variable |
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| variable that is affected by other variables |
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| a research design for testing hypotheses about cause-effect relationships, in which the researcher manipulates one variable ( the independent variable in order to asses it effect on another variable (dependent variable). |
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| a theoretical representation of some aspect of reality designed to allwo testing of hypotheses |
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| Design, Setting, Data-collection Methods |
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| Experiments, Correlational studies, Descriptive studies |
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| Laboratory Studies, Field Studies |
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| Self-report, Observational |
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