Terminology Flashcards
A hypothesis is a?
An educated guess about a relationship between two variables, that me then test
An independent variable is a _______ variable
Manipulated
What is the term for a variable we manipulate?
Independent variable
a variable that we measure is a…?
Dependant variable
A variable that we measure is called a ________ variable?
Dependant variable
Confounding variables do what to results
Influence them. May make the results biased or unreliable
Influenced results are often due to a
Confounding variable
What is a confounding variable?
Confounding variables affect other variables in a way that produces distorted associations between two variables. They confound the “true” relationship between two variables
Matching and random assignment is
A process in which we try to create equivalent groups
What is an example of (good) matching and random assignment?
Taking a group of participants from a population and randomly assigning them to conditions to make it as random as possible. This helps remove any confounding or bias that may occur
Demand characteristics are?
Features of the experimental design that may increase the chances that participants may interpret the true purpose of the design
Features of an experimental design that may increase the chance participants may interpret the true purpose of the design are also known as
Demand characteristics
A population is
Anyone within a given definition (can be small a large) - generally large
