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Chapter 2 - Scientific Method Flashcards

Psychology as a Science - Chapter 2

1
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Deductive reasoning

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making a hypothesis based on previous knowledge to create specific conclusions. (educated guess)

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Inductive reasoning

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Using specific details to come up with conclusions

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Empirical

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Something that can be tested in objective ways

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Theories

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Ideas about laws and how the world works

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Hypothetico-deductive reasoning

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Testing educated guesses in the form of experiments and controlled observations

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Hypotheses

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Prediction statement that can be proven right or wrong

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Psychology

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Using scientific method to understand the humans’ mental processes

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Pseudopsychology

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Not using the scientific method to make comments about mental processes (horoscopes)

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Positive psychology

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Focusing on positive aspects of psychology - how to make lives more fulfilling

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Multiple influences

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idea that behavior cannot be explained by only one factor

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Thoughts vs Behavior

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Thoughts - cannot be observed directly
Behavior - can be observed directly

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4 goals of psych

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describe, explain, predict, and change or control behaviors

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Variable

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Condition, event, or situation that can be studied

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Independent variable

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Can be controlled and manipulated

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15
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Dependent variable

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Thing we are observing -changed by independent variable

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Operationalized

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How the researcher decides to measure their observations

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Step one in research

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Identify questions

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Step 2 in research

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Develop hypoethesis

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Step 3 in research

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1) Select research method
2) Choose participants
3) Collect data

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Step 4 in research

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Analyze the data - reject/accept hypothesis

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Step 5 in research

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Seek scientific review, publish

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Step 6 in research

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Build a theory

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Sample

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Part of the population that is studied in research

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Population

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Entire group of interet

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Random selection

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Everyone in the population must have an equal chance of being chosen

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Sampling bias

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Selecting a group likely to confirm hypothesis

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Descriptive Research

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Case study, naturalistic observation, survey

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Experimental research

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Manipulation and control variables

29
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Case study

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Intensive study of one person

30
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Case study - Advantage

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Can develop ideas about phenomena

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Case study - disadvantage

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Bias, cannot generalize results

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Naturalistic observation

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directly observing people to see their natural behavior

33
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Naturalistic - Advantage

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accurately reflects human behavior

34
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Naturalistic - disadvantage

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Bias, hawthorne effect

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Hawthorne Effect

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Participants won’t behave naturally when they know they are being observed

36
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Survey’s

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Questionnaires or interviews

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Survey - Advantage

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Good for gathering information, measure relationship strength between variables

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Survey disadvantage

A

Participant bias

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Experimental research - advantage

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establish cause and effect, eliminates outside influences

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Experimental research - disadvantage

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can be unethical, not generalizable

41
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Experimental group

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group exposed to manipulated environment (IV)

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Control group

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the group used to compare how the IV changes the DV

43
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Random assignment

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balances groups without bias

44
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Double-blind procedure

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neither the participant nor researcher knows who is in which group

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Statistics

A

measures relationships between variables

46
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Correlation

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Show how two or more things are related to each other

47
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Correlation coefficient

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Stats that have strength in a relationship between two variables

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Positive correlation

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one variable increases and the other decreases

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Negative correlation

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one variable increases the other decreases

50
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Perfect positive relationship

51
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Perfect negative relationship

52
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Mean

A

Average of the scores

53
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Standard deviation

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Differences in participants scores

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Replication

A

testing a hypothesis multiple times

55
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Research ethics board

A

Ethic police - oversee experiments

56
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Ethics guidelines

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1) Obtain consent
2) Protect participants privacy

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