Module 3 research designs

Question 0

Correlations

Answer 0

Measures the associations between two variables, or how they go together.

Question 1

Confounds

Answer 1

Factors that undermine the ability to draw casual inferences from an experienents.

Question 2

Dependent variable

Answer 2

The variable the reasercher measures but does not manipulate in a experienent.

Question 3

Experimenter expectations

Answer 3

When the experimenters expectations influence the outcome of a study

Question 4

Independent variable

Answer 4

The variable the researcher manipulates and controls in an experiment.

Question 5

Longitudinal study

Answer 5

The study that follows the same group of individuals over time.

Question 6

Operational definitions

Answer 6

How researchers specifically measure a concept

Question 7

Particpent demands

Answer 7

When participants behave in a way that they think the experimenter wants them to behave

Question 8

Placebo effect

Answer 8

When receiving special treatment or something new affects the human behavior.

Question 9

Quasi - experimental design

Answer 9

An experiment that doe not require random assignments to conditions.

Question 10

Random assignment

Answer 10

Assigning partitcipants to receive different conditions of an experiment by chance.