Research Methods
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| show | An explanation using an integrated set of principles that organizes observations and behaviors or events.
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| Hypothesis | show 🗑
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| show | The tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen it. (Also known as the I-knew-it-all-along phenomenon.)
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| show | Thinking that does not blindly accept arguments and conclusions. Rather, it examines assumptions, discerns hidden values, evaluates evidence, and assesses conclusions.
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| show | Repeating the essence of a research study, usually with different participants in different situations, to see whether the basic finding extends to other participants and circumstances.
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| show | An observation technique in which one person is studied in depth in the hope of revealing universal principles.
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| show | A technique ascertaining the self-reported attitudes or behaviors of a particular group, usually by questioning a representative, random sample of the group.
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| show | All the cases in a group being studied, from which samples may be drawn.
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| show | A sample that fairly represents a population because each member has an equal chance of inclusion.
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| Naturalistic Observation | show 🗑
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| show | A measure of the extent to which two factors vary together, and thus of how well either factor predicts the other.
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| show | A statistical index of the relationship between two things.
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| show | A graphed cluster of dots, each of which represents the values of two variables. The slope of the points suggests the direction of the relationship between the two variables. The amount of scatter suggest the strength of the correlation.
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| show | The perception of a relationship where none exists.
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| Experiment | show 🗑
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| show | Assigning participants to experimental and control groups by chance, thus minimizing preexistence differences between those assigned to the different groups.
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| show | An experimental procedure in which both the research participants and the research staff are ignorant about whether the research participants have received the treatment or a placebo. Commonly used in drug-evaluation studies.
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| Placebo Effect | show 🗑
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| show | In an experiment, the group that is exposed to the treatment, that is, to one version of the independent variable.
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| Control Group | show 🗑
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| Independent Variable | show 🗑
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| Confounding Variable | show 🗑
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| show | The outcome factor; the variable that may change in response to manipulations of the independent variable.
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| Mode | show 🗑
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| show | The middle score in a distribution; have the scores are above it and half are below.
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| Mean | show 🗑
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| show | The difference between the highest and lowest scores in a distribution.
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| Standard Deviation | show 🗑
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| show | A symmetrical, bell-shaped curve that describes the distribution of many types of data; most scores fall near the mean (68 percent fall within one standard deviation of it) and fewer and fewer near the extremes.
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| show | A statistical statement of how likely it is that an obtained result occurred by chance.
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| show | The ending behaviors, ideas, attitudes, values and traditions shared by a group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next.
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| show | An ethical principle that research participants be told enough to enable them to choose whether they wish to participate.
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| Debriefing | show 🗑
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| show | Assigning participants to experimental and control groups by chance, thus minimizing preexisting differences between those assigned to the different groups.
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| show | The statement of the procedures (operations) used to define research variables. For example, human intelligence may be operationally defined as what an intelligence test measures.
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| show | Where the results fall on a pre-determined scale based upon final percentages.
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| Regression Towards the Mean | show 🗑
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| show | An inclination, tendency, or preference.
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| show | Used as a control in testing a new drug, and has no effect on the subject.
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