psychology quiz 3 Flashcards
How do psychologists go about observing and measure behavior?
Case study
Survey
Naturalistic observation
Psychologists use
Operational Definitions
using a single person or gripe to generalize about people
Case study
technique for collecting information about people’s believes and behaviors
Survey
A good survey must use a
representative sample
To achieve a representative sample, a researcher must use
random sampling
Surveys must also pay close attention to
wording effects
observing and recording behavior in nautally occurring situations
Naturalistic observation
How do psychologist use the information that they collect form case studies and surveys and naturalistic observation
To develop correlations and to predict behavior
a relationship between two variables
Correlation
the number assigned to a correlation to indicate it’s positive, negative, or nonexistent
Correlation coeffieicnt
Correlation does not imply what
Causation
two variable are what’s known as a Causal relationship–variable A causes variable B
Causation
the experimental group is exposed to this variable, which is manipulated by the researcher
Independent Variable
thinks about golf for 1hr. A day for 20yrs.
Control group
