Unit One - Developmental Psychology

Question 1

Formal Experiments

Answer 1

Environments are created with manipulations in order to observe the results. Can manipulate environment.

Question 2

Experimenter Bias

Answer 2

If you are only looking for data that confirms hunch, you have experimenter bias.

Question 3

Observer Bias

Answer 3

Looking to see what they expect

Question 4

Double Blind

Answer 4

Both participants and observer doesn’t know true purpose of the study

Question 5

Single Blind

Answer 5

Doesn’t know true purpose of study (only one person of those involved)

Question 6

Selection Bias

Answer 6

Chosen participants with a purpose

Question 7

Random Assignment

Answer 7

Assigning participant roles with no motive

Question 8

Population

Answer 8

the total number of people available to be in the study

Question 9

Representative Sample

Answer 9

Choosing participants for a study that will represent the demographics of the population

Question 10

Random Sample

Answer 10

Participants are chosen randomly, not by age or gender, etc.

Question 11

Dependent Variable

Answer 11

The resulting behavior

Question 12

Independent Variable

Answer 12

The manipulation

Question 13

Confounding variable

Answer 13

Unintentional, uncontrolled, unexpected influences

Question 14

Reliability

Answer 14

Experiment can be repeated often with same result

Question 15

Validity

Answer 15

Choosing an appropriate research method that actually measures what you want

Question 16

Correlation

Answer 16

Hint at a relationship between two variables

Question 17

Causal Influence

Answer 17

A cause and effect relationship