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- Identify a research problem
- Design a study to investigate the problem
- Collect and analyze data
- Draw conclusions
- Communicate their findings
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| A general principle or set of principles proposed to explain how a number of separate facts or related |
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| What you think the outcome of a study will be |
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| Studies the psychology of people working with other people |
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| Researchers observe and record behavior in its natural setting without attempting to influence or control it |
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| A single individual or small number of persons are studied in great depth, usually over an extended period of time |
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| researchers use interviews and/or questionnaires to gather informatino about the attitudes, beliefs, experiences, or behaviors of a group of people |
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- Numerical value that indicates the strength and direction of the relationship between two variables
- ranges from +1.00 to -1.00
- +1.00 perfect positive correlations
- .00 no realtionship
- -1.00 perfect negative correlation
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| Group that is exposed to the independent variable, or the treatment group |
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| group that is exposed to the same experiemental environment, but is not given the treatment. Used for puposes of comparison |
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| Placebo and placebo effect |
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- Placebo is a fake treatment such as a sugar pill
- Effect is that the patient finds that her headache has gone away but she later finds out that she was only given a sugar pill
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- Used to make sure that each participant is given the same chance to get in any group of an experiment
- Example is using a coin flip
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| When the results of an experiment tends to be biased towards the results expectied by the experimenter |
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| a factor that is deliberately manipulated in order to determine whether it causes any change in another behavior or condition |
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| A factor that is measured at the end of an experiment and is presumed to vary as a result of the inedpendent variable |
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| When neither the experimenter or the participant know whether the participant has been given any placebo to prevent bias in the research results |
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| A subset of data that is used to represent the study group as a whole because the number of the group is too large |
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| A researcher selects a relatively small group of participants (a sample) from an entire population of all possible participants |
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| When researchers test on a smaller group of people from the larger group who could represent the entire group as a whole |
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| Ethical guidelines for conducting research |
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Humans
- Reasonable incentives
- Informed consent
- Minimize harm
- Confidentiality
Animals
- Clear purpose for research
- Care for animals
- Minimize pain and suffering
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