3.2 Research Methods: Experiments

Question 1

What are experiments required to do?

Answer 1

Confirm consistent and repeatable results

Question 2

Why do we need research and experiments?

Answer 2

B/c our institutions is often wrong.

Question 3

Explanations that organizes observation and predict outcome

Answer 3

Theories

Question 4

A testable prediction (confirmed or unconfirmed by experiment)

Answer 4

Hypothesis

Question 5

Exact procedures so the experiment can be replicated

Answer 5

Operational definitions

Question 6

How two factors are linked, and can predict one another; however, correlation doesn’t prove causation

Answer 6

Correlation studies

Question 7

A questionnaire that self-reports the anonymous behaviors and characteristics of a certain group

Answer 7

Survey

Question 8

Unhindered observations of animals or people in their natural habitats

Answer 8

Naturalistic observation

Question 9

One individual or groups are studied in depth in the hope of revealing some universal truth

Answer 9

Case studies

Question 10

Group exposed to the treatment - one version of the independent variable

Answer 10

Experimental group

Question 11

Group NOT exposed to the treatment in the experiment

Answer 11

Control group

Question 12

Both research participants and staff are unaware of which group has the placebo and which has the treatment

Answer 12

Double-blind