Cp 2

Question 1

Empiricism

Answer 1

the belief that accurate knowledge can be acquired through observation

Question 2

Dogmatism

Answer 2

the tendency for people to cling to their assumptions

Question 3

Scientific Method

Answer 3

procedure for using empirical evidence to establish facts, when we have an idea about something we go out into the world to test this idea

Question 4

What three qualities make humans hard to study

Answer 4

Humans are Complex, in how we process,

people are Variable, everyone is different,

Reactive, people react differently when they are being observed

Question 5

What are the two Methods used to study humans

Answer 5

Method of Observation, determine what people do

Method of Explanation, determine why people do it

Question 6

Measuring consists of what two steps

Answer 6

Define and detect

Question 7

Demand Characteristics

Answer 7

aspects of an observational setting that cause people to behave as they think someone else wants or expects

Question 8

Naturalistic observation

Answer 8

unobtrusively observing people in their natural environments

Question 9

Observer Bias

Answer 9

tendency for observers expectations to influence both what they believe they observed and what they actually observed

Question 10

Double Blind Study

Answer 10

study which neither researcher nor participant knows how the participants are expected to behave

Question 11

Frequency Distribution

Answer 11

graphical representation showing the number of times in which the measurement of a property takes on each of its possible values

Question 12

Normative Distribution

Answer 12

mathematically defined distribution in which the frequency of measurements is highest in the middle and decreases symmetrically in both directions

Question 13

Descriptive Statistics

Answer 13

Summary statements that capture essential info from a frequency distribution, two kinds, central tendency and variability

Question 14

Central Tendency

Answer 14

measurements that tend to lie near center or midpoint of the frequency distribution

Question 15

Variability

Answer 15

statements about the extent to which the measurements in a frequency distribution differ from each other

Question 16

Three descriptions of central tendency

Answer 16

mode, value of the most frequently observed

measurement, mean the average value of all the

measurements, median value that is the middle

Question 17

Ways to measure variability

Answer 17

range value of the largest measurement in a frequency distribution minus the value of the smallest measurement,

standard deviation statistic that describe how each of the measurements in a frequency distribution differs from the mean