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Psychology test chap 1+2
control yooo brain
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12th Grade
09/12/2010

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variable
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any factor that is measured or controlled and is capable of change
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experimental group
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group of participants to whom an independent variable is applied
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control group
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group of participants that is treated in the same way as the experiment group except the experimental gtreatment is not applied
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double blind experiment
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neither the experimenter nor the participants know which participants receive which treatment
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single blind experiment
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participants are unaware of which participants received the treatment
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psychology
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scientific study of behavior and mental processes
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four goals of psychology
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description, explanation, prediction, and influence
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descriptive statistics
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used to arrange data in logical format
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histogram
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represents intervals
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inferential statistics
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help researchers determine of the hypotheseis is supported by data
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