Scientific Method

Question 1

What are the 6 steps in the scientific method?

Answer 1

Observation, Hypothesis, Test hypothesis, Analyze results, Conclude and Replicate

Question 2

What is the control group?

Answer 2

group that gets no treatment (placebo)

Question 3

What is the experimental group?

Answer 3

Group that gets experimental treatment

Question 4

What is a single blind experiment?

Answer 4

Participants don’t know if they’re getting placebo or nit

Question 5

What is a double-blind experiment?`

Answer 5

`Participants and researchers don’t know who’s getting a placebo.

Question 6

What is the independent variable?

Answer 6

What the scientist changes or what changes on its own.

ex: How tall are you at different ages? Age

Question 7

What is the dependant variable?

Answer 7

What is being studied/measured

Ex: How tall are you at different ages? Height

Question 8

What is the 3rd variable problem?

Answer 8

When a 3rd variable effects BOTH of the variables in a correlation study

Question 9

What are the 3 main experimental flaws?

Answer 9

Small sample size, Participants expectaiton and Experimental bias

Question 10

What are 2 solutions to participents expectations?

Answer 10

Placebo and Random assignment

Question 11

What are 2 solutions to experimental bias?

Answer 11

Single blind - participants don’t know who has placxebo

Double blind - no one knows who has placebo