Chapter 2 Flashcards
What does I.A.C.U.C stand for?
Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee
What does I.R.B. stand for?
Institutional
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What is theory?
A hypothetical explanation of a natural phenomenon.
What is a hypothesis?
A falsifiable prediction made by a theory.
What is the scientific method?
A set of principles about the appropriate relationship between ideas and existence.
What is an independent variable?
The variable that is manipulated
What is a dependent variable?
The variable that is measured.
What is correlation?
Two variables are said to “be correlated” when variations in the value of one variable are synchronized with variations in the value of the other.
What is causation?
The action to causing or producing
The relation of cause to effect; causality.
Anything that produces an effect; cause.
What is the Stanford prison experiment?
Mock prison created Dr Philip Zimbardo 1971 How people respond to a cruel environment w/out clear rules Real emotional breakdowns Dynamics of human behavior
What is validity?
The extent to which a measurement and a property are conceptually related
What is reliability?
The tendency for a measure to produce the same measurement whenever it is used to measure the same.
What is power?
The ability of a measure to detect differences.
Third variable problem
A causal relationship between two variables cannot be inferred from the naturally occurring correlation between them because of the ever present possibility of third-variable correlation.
