Quiz 1 Terms Flashcards
Independent variable
Variable that is manipulated
Dependent variable
Variable that is measured
Population
The entire group that we want to study
Sample
The people that we find to represent this study
True experiment
Has both an independent variable and a dependent variable
Correlational studies
Taking two dependent variables and comparing the relationship
Qualitative variables
A classification
Quantitative variables
You can get a score
Likert Scale
Taking a hypothetical construct and turning it into an operational definition
Descriptive design research
simply observing behaviors
Falsifiable
Capacity for hypothesis to be proven wrong
Parsimony
Identifying simplest and most accurate explanation for brain processes and human behavior
Research
Better than experience, probabilistic
Experience
Has no comparison group, has confounds
Probabilistic
Findings are not expected to explain all of the cases all of the time
Intuition
Biased by faulty thinking, biased by motivation
Availability heuristic
Being persuaded by what comes easily to mind
Present/present bias
Failing to think about what we cannot see
Confirmatory hypothesis testing
Asking biased questions to get expected answers
Bias blind spot
Bias about being biased
Components of an empirical article
Abstract, introduction, method, results, discussion, references
Probabilistic
There are always exceptions
Generalizable
Measurable of how useful the results of a study are for a broader group of people/situations
bivariate correlation
two dependent variables
T-test
One independent variable (2 levels), one dependent variable
ANOVA
One independent variable (more than 2 levels), one dependent variable
CHI square
Two independent variables
Basic research
Used to gain understanding
Applied research
Used to solve systematic problems
Confederate
Person who is on experiment team but pretends to be a participant in experiment
Translational research
Research aimed at translating results in basic research into results that directly benefit humans
Confederates in catharsis
Students wrote essay and turned it into confederate (Steve) who told them they were all terrible writers)
