Unit 5: Research

Question 1

Barnum Effect

Answer 1

When people think that personality descriptions apply specifically to them despite the fact that the description is vague and encompassing

Question 2

Experimenter Bias

Answer 2

When the experimenter gives clues as to how they want the participants to act due to their own bias

Question 3

What are the steps of the scientific method?

Answer 3

Perceiving the question
Hypothesis
Testing
Conclusions
Reporting

Question 4

Control group

Answer 4

Group that receives the placebo or isn’t manipulated

Question 5

Confounding variable

Answer 5

Variable that might change results of study that researcher should be aware of

Question 6

Independent variable

Answer 6

Manipulated variable that is introduced

Question 7

Dependent variable

Answer 7

Behavior that depends on independent variable

Question 8

Operational definition

Answer 8

Operations that experimenter must use to control of measure variables (list of behavior examples/indicators)

Question 9

Empiricism

Answer 9

Experimentation is the most important if not only foundation of scientific knowledge

Question 10

Correlation coefficient

Answer 10

represented as r, shows strength and direction of relationship

-1 is inverse (one up one down) 1 is both up

closer to 0 it is the weaker the relationship