Module 1 & 2

Question 1

Social psychology

Answer 1

The scientific study of how people think about, influence and relate to one another

Question 2

Theory

Answer 2

Integrated set of principles that explain and predict observer events

Question 3

Hypothesis

Answer 3

Testable proposition that describes a relationship that may exist between events

Question 4

Field research

Answer 4

Research done in natural, real-life settings outside the laboratory

Question 5

Correlational research

Answer 5

Study of the naturally occurring relationships amount variables

Question 6

Experimental research

Answer 6

Studies that seek clues to cause-effect relationships by manipulating one or more factors (independent variables) while controlling others (holding them constant)

Question 7

Independent variable

Answer 7

The experimental factor that a researcher manipulates

Question 8

Dependent variable

Answer 8

The variable being measured so called because it may depend on manipulations of the independent variable

Question 9

Replication

Answer 9

Repeating a research study, often with different participants in different settings

Question 10

Random assignment

Answer 10

The process of assigning participants to the conditions of an experiment such that all persons have the same chance of being in a given condition

Question 11

Mundane realism

Answer 11

Degree to which an experiment is superficially similar to everyday situations

Question 12

Experimental realism

Answer 12

Degree to which an experiment absorbs an involves it’s participants

Question 13

Informed consent

Answer 13

An ethical principle requiring that research participants be told enough to enable them to choose whether they wish to participate

Question 14

Hindsight bias

Answer 14

The tendency to exaggerate after learning an outcome, one’s ability to have foreseen how something turned out
“I knew it all along” phenomenon