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1
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Difference between 2 variables that has a relationship with one another.

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Variation

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A change in one variable affects the other variable.

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Covariation

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Based on morality; act of doing what is right.

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Ethics

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Sense of right and wrong of an individual.

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Morality

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Dos and don’ts of society.

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Norms

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6 ethical standard in Psychology.

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Responsibility
Informed consent
Protection from harm
Freedom to withdraw
Debriefing
Confidentiality

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6 ethical standard in Psychology.

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Responsibility
Informed consent
Protection from harm
Freedom to withdraw
Debriefing
Confidentiality

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Something a person could be held accountable for during an experiment.

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Responsibility

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Consent of the participants; they need to know what they’re agreeing to.

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Informed consent

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Participants are misled or wrongly informed about the aims of the research; problem that counters informed consent

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Deception

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Participants are misled or wrongly informed about the aims of the research.

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Deception

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Explaining everything that took place in the experiment to the client.

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Debriefing

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Data gained from the participants must be kept anonymous.

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Confidentiality

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Anything that is capable of changes.

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Variable

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Manipulated variable.

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Independent Variable

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2 types of IV.

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Stimulus
Organismic

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Type of IV that influences changes in the variable; any aspect in the environment.

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Stimulus

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Type of IV that can be found on the body

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Organismic

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Consistency of the result.

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Reliability

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20
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Test measures what it tends to measure.

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Validity

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3 types of measure under the dependent variable.

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Response measure
Growth measure
Delayed measure

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Kinds of response measure.

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Accuracy
Speed
Duration
Latency
Frequency

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Rate; sometimes measured in frequency.

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Accuracy

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How long it takes to complete a response.

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Duration

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Delay; time that it takes to start a response; how long it takes to manifest a behavior.

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Latency

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How often; repitition.

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Frequency

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Anything that grows in an organism; measures variables that change with time.

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Growth measures

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There is a particular period of time before testing the behavior.

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Delayed measure

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2 types of research

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Experimental research
Non-experimental research

30
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Type of research that has a control & experimental variable.

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Experimental research

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Examples of Experimental research.

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Confirmatory
Exploratory
Crucial
Pilot studies
Field studies

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Is where researchers have a pretty good idea of what’s going on. That is, researcher has a theory (or several theories), and the objective is to find out if the theory is supported by the facts.

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Confirmatory

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Is done when the area or situation has not been studied before. It tries to answer the question: What will happen if I do this?

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Exploratory research

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Allegedly establishes the truth of one of a set of competing theories.

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Crucial

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Are small-scale, preliminary studies which aim to investigate whether crucial components of a main study – usually a randomized controlled trial (RCT) – will be feasible.

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Pilot studies

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Is a form of study that is made to discover relationships in the real social structure of everyday life.

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Field studies

37
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Example of non-experimental research.

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Survey
Observational
Correlational
Archival
Quasi-experimental

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Types of observational research.

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Naturalistic
Unobtrusive
Obtrusive

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Type of observational research where the participants aren’t aware of being observed.

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Unobtrusive

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Type of observational research where the participants are aware of being observed.

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Obtrusive

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Example of a non-experimental research that can’t be manipulated; finding the significant relationship between variables.

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Correlational research

42
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Seeking out and extracting from archive files.

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Archival research

43
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What does the Latin word “quasi” mean?

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Almost/looks like/appears to be

44
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The changing of behavior once the participants are aware of being observed.

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Hawthorne effect

45
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A quasi-experimental study examining how an independent variable, present prior to the study, affects a dependent variable.

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Post facto study

46
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Variable that confounds the experiment; contaminate/confuse the experiment.

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Extraneous variable

47
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Parametrics

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Pearson r
Degree of freedom
Alpha level

48
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A parameter that is used to determine the relationship between 2 variables.

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Pearson r

49
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A parameter where any value that will fall in it is considered accurate.

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Degree of freedom

50
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2 types of hypothesis testing.

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1-tailed
2-tailed

51
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Type of hypothesis testing that can either go up or down.

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1-tailed

52
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Type of hypothesis testing that can either go both ways.

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2-tailed

53
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A relationship where both variables increase or decrease together.

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Direct relationship

54
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A relationship where two variables in a data set are related such that when one is high the other is low.

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Inverse relationship

55
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Which one does not belong in the group?

a. A man running a distance of 100 meters within 15 secs.
b. A plant growing 6 cms. If exposed to sunlight 24 hrs a day
c. Soldiers hitting targets 9 out of ten shots
d. Students taking 8 seconds before starting to write their answers

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B

56
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The best topic for survey research is:

a. LGBTQ in the Philippines
b. Attitude towards the Police visibility
c. Relationships of sex workers
d. Leadership styles of Barangay chairpersons

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B

57
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Pearson r is suitable when:

a. two groups are being compared
b. finding if sex is related to mathematical ability
c. finding a connection between rural and urban cooking
d. finding at connection between fuel price and gross domestic product

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D

58
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All are studies that utilize organismic variable as independent variable, except:

a. Color of the skin and attractiveness rating
b. name and self-esteem
c. size of dogs and duration of barking
d. punching power in relation to calf muscle size

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B

59
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Quasi-experimental method is usually done due to the following conditions except:

a. when variables are products of natural occurrence
b. when variables are predetermined
c. when variables are usually observed naturally
d. when change in one variable influence the change in another

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D

60
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Which one does not belong in the group?

a. male and female attractiveness
b. attractiveness and parental looks
c. name and perceived self worth
d. IQ and parental income

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A

61
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Pilot studies are done for these reasons except:

a. economic
b. to see if a program will work on a smaller scale.
c. to test how one variable influences the other. d. for future full blown research

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C

62
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Feeding horses with an experimental feeds and measuring their speed is an example of this type of dependent variable.

a response measure
b. growth measure
c. delayed measure
d. stimulus measure

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A

63
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After computing for the relationship between length of sleep and the change in another attractiveness, the value of r= -.93 this means that:

a those who sleep longer are more attractive
b. those who sleep less are more attractive
c. the more you sleep the better you will look
d. when change in one variable influence

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B

64
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Archival research could be used in all topics except:

a Infant mortality rate for the last ten years.
b. Spanish colonialism in the Philippines
c. Effect of typhoons on personal lives of people for the last 10 yrs
d. Life, love and sins of previous presidents.

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C

65
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6 ways to control an extraneous variable.

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Elimination
Balancing
Counterbalancing
Matching
Randomization
Constancy of condition

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