2.1-2.11: What Makes Psychology a Science? & Three Kinds of Research

Question 1

When a study is conducted more than once on a new sample of participants, and obtains the same basic results

Answer 1

Replication

Question 2

A periodical containing peer-reviewed articles on a specific academic discipline, written for a scholarly audience

Answer 2

Journal

Question 3

The specific way of measuring or manipulating an abstract variable in a particular study

Answer 3

Operational definition

Question 4

A type of study in which researchers measure on variable at a time

Answer 4

Descriptive research

Question 5

An observational research method in which psychologists observe the behavior of animals and people in their normal, everyday worlds and environments

Answer 5

Naturalistic observation

Question 6

A descriptive research method in which psychologists measure their variable of interest by observing and recording what people are doing

Answer 6

Observational research

Question 7

An observational research method in which researchers study one or two individuals in depth, often those who have a unique condition

Answer 7

Case study

Question 8

A type of study that measure two (or more) variables in the same sample of people, and then observes the relationship between them

Answer 8

Correlational research

Question 9

For a given observed relationship between two variables, an additional variable that is associated with both of them, making the additional variable an alternative explanation for the observed relationship

Answer 9

Third-variable problem

Question 10

A study in which one variable is manipulated and the other is measured. It can provide evidence that one variable causes another

Answer 10

Experimental research

Question 11

In an experiment, a group or condition in which people expect to receive a treatment but are exposed only to an inert version, such as a sugar pill

Answer 11

Placebo condition