Chapter 2 Flashcards
What implies the description of psychology?
Critical thinking and empirical evidence and more important to psychologists than intuition and common sense.
What applies to studies based on naturalistic observation?
Researchers using this method do not have control over the events in the study.
What is true about case studies?
Researches may not be able to generalize the findings of a case study to the popular at large.
What is true about survey research?
Researchers use surveys to obtain data on behaviors that are difficult to observe.
What accurately describes experiments?
They are the only way to demonstrate cause-and-effect relationships between variables.
What accurately describes an aspect of the experimental method?
Clearer conclusions can be drawn from this type of research if extraneous variables are controlled.
Can animals be exposed to painful or harmful procedures in an experiment?
Yes, but only when the procedures can be justified in terms of knowledge gained.
Replication
Repeating a study to see if similar results are obtained.
Placebo
Something that looks like a drug but has no pharmacological effects.
Experimenter bias
A researchers expectations influence the results of the study.
What is an example of an experimenter bias?
An experimenter ignores or overlooks behaviors that don’t fit with her hypothesis but records behaviors that support it.
Psychology is often described as
The scientific study of behavior and mental processes.
Theory
Requires evidence and people to refute.
Falsifiability
Good scientific work, something to refute a claim.
Parasimony
Being able to create something simple. Should not over complicate testability. (Simplistic view of variables)
