Module 6: Critical Research Issues Flashcards
A document signed by participants affirming that they have been told the basic outlines of the study and are aware of what their participation will involve.
Informed consent
Factors that distort how the independent variable affects the dependent variable in an experiment.
Experimental bias
A false treatment, such as a pill, “drug,” or other substance, without any significant chemical properties or active ingredient.
Placebo
By keeping both the participant and the experimenter who interacts with the participant “blind” to the nature of the drug that is being administered, researchers can more accurately assess the effects of the drug.
Double-blind procedure
an experimenter unintentionally trans- mits cues to participants about the way the experimenter expects them to behave. The danger is that those expectations actually cause the expected result to happen— results that otherwise might not have occurred
Experimenter expectations
Psychologists who specialize in considering the ways in which the biological structures and functions of the body affect behavior are known as
Behavioral neuroscientists