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Chapter 2- Research Methods Flashcards

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List and describe 4 major kinds of research done in psychology and the advantages/
disadvantages of each.

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What are the two types of experimental validity?

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External and Internal

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What type of design will we use if we want to increase external validity? What type would
we use if we want to use internal validity?

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How would you ensure that the survey you conducted would be generalizable?

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What are two ways of evaluating measures?

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What are the advantages and disadvantages of self-report measures?

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Describe two basic facts about correlations.

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What makes a study an experiment? ( 2 things)

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How does a confound impact your conclusions in a study?

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What conclusions can you reach from the results of an experiment in comparison to a
correlational study?

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When conducting a study on human participants, what two things should researchers do?

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Make sure you know the two main types of statistics in psychology:

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Descriptive and Inferential

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Prefrontal Lobotomy

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Used to treat schizophrenia and other severe mental disorders

Severed the fibers connecting the frontal lobe and thalamus

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Heuristic

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Mental shortcuts or rules of thumb

Heuristics reduce the cognitive energy required to solve problems

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Naturalistic Observation

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Watching behavior in real-world settings

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External Validity

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Internal Validity

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Case Study

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Studying one or a small number of people for an extended period

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Existence Proof

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demonstration that a psychological phenomenon can occur

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Random Selection

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Every person in the general population has an approximately equal chance of being chosen to participate in the research sample

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Reliability

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Consistency of measurement

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Validity

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Extent to which a measure assesses what it claims to measure

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Response Set

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Correlation Design

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Examine the strength of linear association between two variables

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Scatterplot

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Illusory Correlation

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Experiment

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Random Assignment

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Experimental Group

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receives manipulation

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Control Group

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does not receive manipulation

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Between- Subjects Design

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2+ non-overlapping groups given different treatments

(e.g. measuring depression in Drug and Placebo groups)

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Within- Subject Design

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A single group given 2+ treatments (e.g. measuring mood before and after music)

Each subject acts as their own control

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Independent Variable

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manipulated by the experimenter

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Dependent Variable

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measured by the experimenter

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Operational Definition

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Placebo Effect

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Improvement because you expect improvement

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Blind

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Participant unaware of the treatment they receive

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Double-Blind

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Experimenter unaware of treatment

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Experimenter Expectancy Effect

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Researchers’ hypotheses lead them to unintentionally bias the outcome

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Demand Characteristics

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Cues that participants pick up allowing them to guess the researcher’s hypothesis

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Informed Consent

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Participants must know what is involved in the study prior to participation

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Statistics

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Descriptive Statistics

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Central Tendency

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Mean

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Median

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Mode

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Range

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difference between the highest and lowest scores

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Variability

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How loosely or closely scores are clustered
Includes range and standard deviation

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Standard Deviation

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how far each data point is from the mean

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Inferential Statistics

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