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| system of gathering data so that bias and error in measurement are reduced |
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| tentative explanation of a phenomenon based on observations |
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| the study of people or animals in their natural environment |
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| tendency of people or animals to behave differently from normal when they know they are being observed |
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| tendency of people or animals to behave differently from normal when they know they are being observed |
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| tendency of observers to see what they except to see |
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| method of conducting research in a controlled environment |
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| study of one indivdual in great detail |
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| method of conducting research in the form of interviews |
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| randomly selected sample of subjects from a larger population of subjects |
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| the entire group of people or animals in which the reseachers is interested |
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| a measure of the relationship between two variables |
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| a number derived from the formula for measuring a correlation and indicating the strength and direction of a correlation |
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| changes in behavior result allowing the determination of cause and effects relationship |
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| definations of a variables of interest that allows it to be measured |
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| permisson from a person to participate in an experiment after the risks and purpose of the experiment have been explained |
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| variables in an experiment that manipulated by the experimenter |
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| variables in an experiment that represents the measurables response or behavior of the subjects in the experiments |
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| variables in an experiment that may unintenionally affected the dependent variables |
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| subjects in an experiment who subjected to the variables and who may receive a placebo treatment |
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| subjected in an experiment who are not subjected to the independent variables and who may receive a placebo treatment |
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| process of assigning subjects to experimental or control groups randomly so that each subject has and equal chance of being in either group |
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| phenomenon in which the expectations of the participants in a study can influence their behavior |
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| tendency of the experimenter expectations for a study to ununtentionally influence the results of the study |
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| study in which neither the experimenters nor the subject know if the subjects are in the experimental or control group |
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