Research Methods

Question 1

Whats social psych?

Answer 1

The scientific study of how people think about, influence, and relate to others.

Question 2

Whats a correlation design?

Answer 2

to see if variables have a relationship to each other.

Question 3

Whats a experimental design?

Answer 3

to see if something causes something else.

Question 4

whats the difference between a correlation and experimental design?

Answer 4

experimental manipulates its variables

correlation just wants to see a relationship

Question 5

What are R values?

Answer 5

correlation coefficient

-1 to 1

Question 6

Key components are that make up experimental research?

Answer 6

Random assignment of participants

Controlled manipulation of independent variable

Question 7

Whats the scientific method?

Answer 7

1) State problem or research 
question
2) Formulate hypothesis
3) Design experiment
4) Test hypothesis with data from  experiment
5) Communicate results

Question 8

Whats INDEPENDENT VARIABLE?

Answer 8

can be changed

Question 9

Whats DEPENDENET VARIABLE?

Answer 9

being effected by the independent variable

Question 10

Whats OPERATIONAL DEFINITIONS?

Answer 10

how to measure something

Question 11

Whats INTERNAL VALIDITY?

Answer 11

did the IV really have effect on the DV

Question 12

Whats EXTERNAL VALIDITY?

Answer 12

can we generalize these results to the population as a whole

Question 13

Whats RELIABILITY?

Answer 13

does results stay the same over time

Question 14

Whats a theory?

Answer 14

Unobservable constructs that are linked together in some logical way; principles that explain predicted and observed results

Question 15

Whats a hypothesis?

Answer 15

Hypothesis: An idea about the possible nature of reality; a prediction tested in an experiment

Question 16

Difference between hypothesis and theory?

Answer 16

theory has support behind it to prove that it could be true, hypothesis is just an educated guess