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Happy music caused people to??

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Rate their lives as more meaningful

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Who conducted a series of laboratory experiments about music?

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King & Hicks

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What is the CAUSE and what is the EFFECT?

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Cause- independent variable

Effect- dependent variable

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Control group provides a comparison against which the researcher can test the effects of the

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Independent variable

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What does validity refer to?

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The soundness of the conclusions that a researcher draws from an experiment

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High self-esteem can equal

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Agression

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What does the internal validity do?

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Tells us wether the experimental methods are free from biases and logical errors that may render the results suspect

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Who turned college students into experimenters?

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Robert rosenthal

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What are confounds?

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Factors that “ride along” with the experimental manipulation, systematically and undesirable influencing the dependent variable.

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What are ways to insure that neither the experimenters nor the participants expectations s effect the outcome?

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Double-blind experiment

Placebo

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Who believed that people who were the healthiest and the happiest were capable of having intense moments of awe

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Abraham maslow

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Who used correlational research to probe indiciduals’ descriptions of their most powerful positive experiences?

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Dan McAdams

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Experiment

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A carefully regulated procedure in which the researcher manipulates one or more variables that are believed to influence some other variable

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Random assignment

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Reasearchers’ assignment of participants to group by chance, to reduce the likelihood that an experiment’s results will be due to preexisting differences between groups

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Independent variable

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A manipulated experimental factor

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Confederate

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A person who is given a role to play in a study so that the social context can be manipulated

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Dependent variable

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The outcome

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Experimental group

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The participants in an experiment who receive the drug or other treatment under study - that is, those who are exposed to the change that the independent variable represents

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Control group

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The participants in an experiment who are as much like the experimental group as possible and who are treated in every way like the experimental group except for a manipulated factor, the independent variable

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External validity

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The degree to which an experimental design actually reflects the real world issue it is supposed to address

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Internal validity

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The degree to which changes in the dependent variable are due to the manipulation of the independent variable

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Experimenter bias

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Occurs when the experimenter’s expectations influence the outcome of the research

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Demand characteristics

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Any aspects of a study that communicate to the participants how the experimenter wants them to behave

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Research participant bias

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Occurs when the behavior of research participants during the experiment is influenced by how they think they are supposed to behave or their expectations about what is happening to them

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Placebo effect

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Occurs when participants expectations rather than the experimental treatment, produced an outcome

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Placebo

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In a drug study, a harmless substance that has no physiological effect, given to participants in a control group so that they are treated identically to the experimental group except for the active agent

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Double- blind experiment

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An experimental design in which neither the experimenter not the participants are aware of which participants are in the experimental group and which are in the control group until the results are calculated

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Population

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The entire group about which the investigator wants to draw conclusions

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Sample

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The subset of the population chosen by the investigator for this study

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Random sample

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A sample that gives every member of the population an equal chance of being selected

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Naturalistic observation

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The observation of behavior in real-world setting