Module 1 : A Research Primer

Question 1

What is social psychology?

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

Question 2

What is theory?

Answer 2

An integrated set of principles that explain and predict observed events

Question 3

What is hypothesis?

Answer 3

A testable proposition that describes a relationship that may exist between events

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What is field research?

Answer 4

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

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What is correlational research?

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The study of the naturally occurring relationships among variables

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What is experimental research?

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

Question 7

What is a independent variable?

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The experimental factor that a researcher manipulates

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What is an dependent variable?

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

Question 9

What is replication?

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Repeating a research study, often with different participants in different settings, to determine whether a finding could be reproduced

Question 10

What is random assignment?

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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

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What does random assignment infers?

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Cause and effect

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What is mundane realism?

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Degree to which an experiment is superficially similar to everyday situations

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What is experimental realism?

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Degree to which an experiment absorbs and involves its participants

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What is informed consent?

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

Question 15

What is an independent variable?

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The thing you manipulate

Cause

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What is the dependent variable?

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Effect

Question 17

Ex of IV

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Whether or not you smile

Specific

Question 18

Ex of DV

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Whether or not people like you

Specific

Question 19

We assume that the independent dependent variable causes

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The dependent variable

Question 20

There is a correlation between

Answer 20

IV and DV

Question 21

Subject self selection

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Is the way of not letting the people in the experiment choose . They do not get to choose or have an opinion
Randomly assign people to a condition

Question 22

Ex of Subject Self Selection

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Research says that breast feeding increases the child’s IQ

Question 23

What is the conclusion of the breast feeding ex

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If women are allowed to choose whether or not to breast feed we are not independently
Subject self selection is a problem because
Better educated women do breast feeding

Question 24

In psychology

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We never should study individuals

Question 25

The more people the more likely

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To have better results | Assuming that the IV

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If you can’t measure

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You cannot show evidence

Question 27

In psychology in order to understand people’s behavior

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you should never study individuals | If two individuals are different there are endless reasons why that happens

Question 28

Freud said

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Theory that explains everything, explains nothing

Question 29

What is operational definition?

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Concrete way of measure the constructs Exa: Rosenberg came up with the measure of self-esteem You an have multiple OD

Question 30

Assuming that the IV has no effect, and we randomly assign people

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We expect them to have the same IQ | The more people we have the more likely those means are identical

Question 31

Who is Mariam Wilkinson

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Good person to persuade others and convincing people

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What is bias?

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Parcialidad

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What is unbiased?

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Impartial

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Theories have

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Multiple hypothesis

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Whois Rosenberg?

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Discover the measure of self-esteem

Question 36

You can have a relationship between two variables, if you don’t know what is causing it

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The you say is correlation | If you don’t manipulate the IV

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If we randomly assign them to a condition

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Then is a TRUE EXPERIMENT

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What is experimental ?

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That you actually assigned the independent variable

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What is a counfound tdefinition

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Something that is correlated with the I!but you are not interested in it in terms of your hypothesis because it gets in the way of causing it

Question 40

What is a hypothesis?

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Imply testable predictions | Allow us to test a theory by suggesting how we might try to falsify it

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How do you identify a good theory

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Summarizes many observations Makes clear predictions to confirm or modify the theory Generate new exploration Suggest practical applications

Question 42

Who is Freud

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Id Ego Superego

Question 43

What is correlational?

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Whether two or more factors are naturally associated

Question 44

A theory that explains everything

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Explains nothing

Question 45

What is field research?

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Everyday situations

Question 46

What is experimental?

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Manipulating some factor to see its effect on another

Question 47

What is Hook thinking?

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When people makes sense to everything and is bad science like Freud

Question 48

Don’t get excited about

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Coincidences or chances

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What are the two definitions of realism?

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- Experimental | - Mundane (seems real life)

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What is mundane?

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Seems real life | Feels like real life

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What is an example of mundane realism?

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Self - esteem You have to manipulate (I order to bean experiment) Bully (realistic) it might not be necessary Asking as about a day bully us Experiments do not to have mundane realism

Question 52

What is confederate

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Person who is in the experiment pretending to be another participant ,but they are not (actor)

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Science is not trying to mimic

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Real life

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What is the institution they reviews studies

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Institutional review board | To make sure you don’t “harm” the participants

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Value of you pr experiment could

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Bring out ways any potential harm (ethics) that can bring to any participant

Question 56

What is the experiment of the RBG of ethics of us being conservative?

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Professor pushing the baby off the table

Question 57

Ethics and morals

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Is not something that is something is in here because you can see it e everywhere

Question 58

What is ascent

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If the kid is old enough to decide then he can decide

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What is consent?

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Let them know what is going to happen

Question 60

Experiments should have experimental realism

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Engage the participants