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Scientific Research

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A crictal tool to understand this complex world - Science is an approach to asking and answering questions

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Intuition

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Gut-instincts, relying on your emotions and instincts

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Authority

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accepting new ideas because an authority figure (parent;teacher…) said they are true

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Hindsight Bias

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Finding that something has happened makes it inevitable but related past events can be explained in many creative and contradictory ways

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Emiricism

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Learning information through observation and expirence; limited to what we can observe and experience, and our senses can deceive us

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Skepticism

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to inquire and test any ideas (show your evidence)

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Facts

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obersevable realities

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Opinions

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personal judgements, conclusions, or attitudes that may or may not be true

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Scientific method

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empirical method for acquiring knowledge, characterized the advances in science

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Deductive Reasoning

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ideas are tested against the empirical world (general knowledge to logical conclusion) (living things need energy to live, ducks are living, ducks need energy to live)

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Inductive reasoning

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empirical observation that leads to new ideas - empirical observation to general knowledge (ducks have gone to my pond in the past, therefore this summer they will go to my pond.)

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Theory

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well-developed set of ideas, that proposes explanation for phenomena

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Hypothesis

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A testable prediction about how the world will behave if we are correct (if then statement)

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Case Study

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focus on one individual over time or a few characters that share a rare condition - no cause-effect - no generalization

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Naturalistic Observation

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Observing behaviour in it’s natural context - no cause-effect - no generalization - observer bias

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Generalizability

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A measure of how useful the results of a study are to the broader group of people or situations

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Structured observation

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people are observed while engaging in specific task

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Observer bias

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tendency to not observe what is there but what they expect or want to be

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Inter-rater reliability

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measure of consistency used to evaluate the extent to which different judges agree on their assement desicions

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Surveys

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A way to collect information from a larger portion of people - a list of questions answered by participants

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Archival Research

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using past records or data sets to look for interesting patterns or relationships

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Longitudinal Research

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Monitor how people change over time; data gathering repeatedly over time

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Cross-sectional Research

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moniter how people change over time - compares multiple segments of the population at the same time

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Correlational Research

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examines relationship between two variables

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Causation
one thing is the reason why something else happens
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Confounding Variable
two variables are intertwined in such a way that they can't be differentiated
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Illusory Correlation
perceiving a relationship between variables when there isn't one
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Correlational Coefficient
statistical measure of strength of linear relationship between relationship
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Experiemental hypothesis
predicts what changes will take place in the dependant variable when the independent variable is manipulated
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Experimental Group
the group that receives the variable/treatment being tested
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Control Group
Doesn't receieve the variable/treatment being tested to add a comparative component
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Variables
any factor, trait or condition that can vary
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Operational Definition
defines a variable in terms of the specific procedure used to produce/measure it
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Experimental design
carrying out research in an objective and controlled fashion; between groups data, and random assignment
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Single VS Double-blind
Single - the participants aren't told of the treatment assignment Double-Blind - the participants and researchers aren't told of the treatment assignement
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Independant Variable
manipulated or controlled by the expirmenter; difference between experiment and control groups
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Dependant Variable
what the researcher measures to see how much independent variable effects it
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Population
set of individuals of interest in particular study
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Sample
set of individuals from population to represent it in particular study
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Random Sampling
Each sample has an equal probability of being chosen, but still random
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Random Assignment
Each individual has an equal opportunity to be either group
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Statistical Analysis
collecting and analysizing data to see patterns and trends, remove bias and inform decision making
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Peer-Review articles
evaluation of work by one or more peers
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Reliability
ability to consistently produce given results; any tools/instruments used in consistent way
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Validity
how accurately measures what it's supposed to measure
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Research Ethic
guidelines for responsible conducted research
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Informed Consent
participant must have suffienct information and understanding of study before deciding to participate
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Deception
gives false information/intentionally misleads participants about key aspects of experiment - only if no other options.
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Explain how psychological scientific research addresses questions about behaviour and cognitive process
Identify question, gather information and form hypothesis, test, analyze, and build body of knowledge
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Describe the difference between deductive and inductive reasoning
Deductive is when you take general knowledge to logically come up with a specific conclusion - general knowledge - logical reasoning - specific conclusion Inductive is when you take an empirical observation and find a new general idea - specific observation, pattern recognition, the general conclusion
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Describe the different research methods used by psychologist and their relative strengths and weaknesses
(Correlational Research) - no cause and effect, -Survey -Naturalistic Observation -Case Studies -Archival Research -Longitudinal -Cross-sectional -Correlational -Experiments
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Descibe differences between longitudinal and cross-sectional reseaches
Longitudinal - study one or few individuals with rare characteristic over long period of time Cross-Sectional - Study's different individuals across the population at the same-time
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Explain what a correlation coefficent tells us about the relationship between variables
This measures the strength of the relationship between variables - positive coefficient means that higher scores on one variable are associated with high scores on the other. Negative Coefficent means when one variable has higher score the other has a lower score scatterplots show the correlation between two variables
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Describe difference between population and sample
The population is a large group of individuals that has characteristics a study is interested in A sample is a smaller representative set of individuals from a population
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Explain random sampling and assignment of participants into experimental and control groups
Random sampling is where the population has a porportionaly equality of being chosen to participate and random assignment means the individuals have an equal chance of being put into the experiment or control group
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Identify independent and dependant variables (ex. You are measuring how the amount of sunlight affects the growth of a type of plant)
The independent variable is the variable that is manipulated to affect the dependant variable. The dependant variable is the variable measured. (Ex. Independ = amount of sunlight; dependant = growth)
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Define Reliability and Validity
Reliability is the degree the consistency of a measurements results. Validity - the degree to which a test measures what it was designed to measure
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Summarize the process of informed consent and debreiving
Informed consent is when a participant is debreived about the what the study consists of, the risks, benefits and possible outcomes prior to consenting. Debreiving is when the researcher and participant have an interview about the study.

Psychology 101 & 102 (19 decks)

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