Characteristics Of A True Experiment Flashcards
What is the control group?
The part of the experiment or steps taken to reduce the effects of extraneous variables. Receive no treatment or a neutral treatment.
What are Lurking Variables?
A variable that is not among the independent and dependent variable but influences the dependent variable.
What is the Cofounding Variable?
Is one whose effects on the response variable cannot be distinguished from one or more of the independent variables and the dependent variables in the study.
What is Placebo?
Often, participants in an experiment respond differently after they receive a treatment even if the treat is neutral.
What is the blinding in an experiment?
Not telling participants if they are receiving a placebo.
Double blinding deals with the receiver and the giver not knowing if the treatment is a placebo or not
What is randomization?
The practice of using “Chance” methods to assign participants to a particular group.
What is replication?
Process of repeating any part of the experiment to alleviate any bias
What is the difference between an independent and Dependent variables?
An independent variable is the variable in the experiment that is not changed but affects the variable that do change when the independent variable is present. (Dependent variable)
