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Researchers want to know how happiness is impacted by the color of your socks. Color of socks would be the...
Independent Variable
Confounding Variable
Dependent Variable
Control Variable
When researchers cannot ethically randomly assign people in an experiment, so they compare groups that already exist.
Correlational study
Case Study
Naturalistic Observation
Longitudinal study
The committee within an organization that approves or denies research based on ethics.
Internal Affairs Committee
American Psychology Association
Ethical Dilemma Resolution Group
Institutional Review Board
When two variables increase and decrease together.
Strong Correlation
Positive Correlation
Negative Correlation
Weak Correlation
One of the drawbacks of this type of study is that the conclusion are not very generalizable.
Case study
correlational study
experiment
survey
The participants in research who serve as the baseline for comparison.
Variable group
Control group
Experimental group
Neutral group
The school of thought based on the premise that psychological practices can only be based on what is observable.
Behavioral perspective
Biological perspective
Cognitive perspective
Psychoanalytic perspective
As miles driven in a car increases, the gallons of gas remaining decreases.
Positive correlation
No correlation
Negative correlation
Weak correlation
In testing the effects of different kinds of light on plant growth, plant growth would be the...
Hypothesis
Dependent variable
Independent variable
Control condition
The research method in which the researcher does not at all interfere with or try to control any part of the research.
Experiment
Case study
Longitudinal study
Observational study
The participants in research who receive the experimental treatment to measure its effects.
Experimental group
Random Sample
Control group
Population
When researchers meet with participants at a study's conclusion to reveal information and ensure their well-being.
Confidentiality
Informed Consent
Debriefing
Revelation
One of the first people to advocate for the better treatment of the mentally ill.
Dorothea Dix
Mary Whiton Calkins
Rene Descartes
Margaret Floy Washburn
Indicated by p-value
Scatterplot
Correlation coefficient
Null hypothesis
Statistical significance
The type of graph that depicts the direction and strength of a correlation
Bar graph
Scatterplot
Histogram
Pie chart
The first person to study the unconscious mind through psychoanalysis and free association.
Freud
Skinner
Wundt
Maslow
A variable outside of what is being controlled in the experiment that has an unwanted effect on the results.
Independent variable
Control variable
Confounding variable
Neutral Variable
Research must maintain utmost protection of all participants’ information and identity.
Debriefing
Informed Consent
Confidentiality
Anonymity
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