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Module 1 : A Research Primer Flashcards

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What is social psychology?

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The scientific study of how people think about, influence, and relate to one another

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What is theory?

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An integrated set of principles that explain and predict observed events

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What is hypothesis?

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A testable proposition that describes a relationship that may exist between events

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What is field research?

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Research done in natural, real-life settings outside the laboratory

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What is correlational research?

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The study of the naturally occurring relationships among variables

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What is experimental research?

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Studies that seek clues to cause-effect relationships by manipulating one or more factors (independent variables) while controlling others (holding them constant)

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What is a independent variable?

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The experimental factor that a researcher manipulates

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What is an dependent variable?

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The variable being measured, so called because it may depend on manipulations of the independent variable

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What is replication?

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Repeating a research study, often with different participants in different settings, to determine whether a finding could be reproduced

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What is random assignment?

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The process of assigning participants to the conditions of an experiment such that all persons have the same chance of being in a given condition

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What does random assignment infers?

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Cause and effect

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What is mundane realism?

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Degree to which an experiment is superficially similar to everyday situations

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What is experimental realism?

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Degree to which an experiment absorbs and involves its participants

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What is informed consent?

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An ethical principle requiring that research participants be told enough to enable the to choose whether they wish to participate.

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What is an independent variable?

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The thing you manipulate

Cause

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What is the dependent variable?

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Effect

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Ex of IV

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Whether or not you smile

Specific

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Ex of DV

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Whether or not people like you

Specific

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We assume that the independent dependent variable causes

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The dependent variable

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There is a correlation between

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IV and DV

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Subject self selection

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Is the way of not letting the people in the experiment choose . They do not get to choose or have an opinion
Randomly assign people to a condition

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Ex of Subject Self Selection

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Research says that breast feeding increases the child’s IQ

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What is the conclusion of the breast feeding ex

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If women are allowed to choose whether or not to breast feed we are not independently
Subject self selection is a problem because
Better educated women do breast feeding

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In psychology

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We never should study individuals

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The more people the more likely

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To have better results

Assuming that the IV

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If you can’t measure

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You cannot show evidence

27
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In psychology in order to understand people’s behavior

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you should never study individuals

If two individuals are different there are endless reasons why that happens

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Freud said

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Theory that explains everything, explains nothing

29
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What is operational definition?

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Concrete way of measure the constructs
Exa: Rosenberg came up with the measure of self-esteem
You an have multiple OD

30
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Assuming that the IV has no effect, and we randomly assign people

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We expect them to have the same IQ

The more people we have the more likely those means are identical

31
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Who is Mariam Wilkinson

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Good person to persuade others and convincing people

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What is bias?

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Parcialidad

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What is unbiased?

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Impartial

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Theories have

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Multiple hypothesis

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Whois Rosenberg?

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Discover the measure of self-esteem

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You can have a relationship between two variables, if you don’t know what is causing it

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The you say is correlation

If you don’t manipulate the IV

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If we randomly assign them to a condition

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Then is a TRUE EXPERIMENT

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What is experimental ?

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That you actually assigned the independent variable

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What is a counfound tdefinition

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Something that is correlated with the I!but you are not interested in it in terms of your hypothesis because it gets in the way of causing it

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What is a hypothesis?

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Imply testable predictions

Allow us to test a theory by suggesting how we might try to falsify it

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How do you identify a good theory

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Summarizes many observations
Makes clear predictions to confirm or modify the theory
Generate new exploration
Suggest practical applications

42
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Who is Freud

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Id
Ego
Superego

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What is correlational?

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Whether two or more factors are naturally associated

44
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A theory that explains everything

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Explains nothing

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What is field research?

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Everyday situations

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What is experimental?

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Manipulating some factor to see its effect on another

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What is Hook thinking?

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When people makes sense to everything and is bad science like Freud

48
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Don’t get excited about

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Coincidences or chances

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What are the two definitions of realism?

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  • Experimental

- Mundane (seems real life)

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What is mundane?

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Seems real life

Feels like real life

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What is an example of mundane realism?

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Self - esteem
You have to manipulate (I order to bean experiment)
Bully (realistic) it might not be necessary
Asking as about a day bully us
Experiments do not to have mundane realism

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What is confederate

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Person who is in the experiment pretending to be another participant ,but they are not (actor)

53
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Science is not trying to mimic

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Real life

54
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What is the institution they reviews studies

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Institutional review board

To make sure you don’t “harm” the participants

55
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Value of you pr experiment could

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Bring out ways any potential harm (ethics) that can bring to any participant

56
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What is the experiment of the RBG of ethics of us being conservative?

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Professor pushing the baby off the table

57
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Ethics and morals

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Is not something that is something is in here because you can see it e everywhere

58
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What is ascent

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If the kid is old enough to decide then he can decide

59
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What is consent?

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Let them know what is going to happen

60
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Experiments should have experimental realism

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Engage the participants

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