Modules 2&3 Psychology As A Science

Question 1

I knew it all along theory

Answer 1

Hindsight bias

Question 2

Explains through a set of principles that organizes and predicts behavior or events

Answer 2

Theory

Question 3

Relationship between two variables

Answer 3

Hypothesis

Question 4

Do it again

Answer 4

Replication

Question 5

Studying an individual in hopes of revealing things true of us all

Answer 5

Case study

Question 6

Looks at many cases and asks a series of questions

Answer 6

Survey

Question 7

A group of people that are to be studied

Answer 7

Population

Question 8

Every person has an equal chance of participating

Answer 8

Random sampling

Question 9

Studying someone in their natural area and observing them

Answer 9

Naturalistic observation

Question 10

Statistical measurement of a relationship

Answer 10

Correlation coefficient

Question 11

Isolate the causes and effects

Answer 11

Experiment

Question 12

One knows what the placebo is

Answer 12

Single blind

Question 13

No one knows what the placebo is

Answer 13

Double blind

Question 14

Sugar pill, it’s not really medicine

Answer 14

Placebo effect

Question 15

People receive the treatment

Answer 15

Experimental condition

Question 16

People who don’t receive the treatment

Answer 16

Control condition

Question 17

Randomly grouping people

Answer 17

Random assignment

Question 18

Things you’re changing to get your results

Answer 18

Independent variable

Question 19

The thing you’re measuring or testing

Answer 19

Dependent variable

Question 20

Explains correlation between independent and dependent variable

Answer 20

Confounding variable

Question 21

Frequent occurring number

Answer 21

Mode

Question 22

Middle number

Answer 22

Median

Question 23

Average

Answer 23

Mean

Question 24

Gap between highest and lowest

Answer 24

Range

Question 25

Uses information from each score

Answer 25

Standard deviation