Quiz 1 Terms

Question 1

Independent variable

Answer 1

Variable that is manipulated

Question 2

Dependent variable

Answer 2

Variable that is measured

Question 3

Population

Answer 3

The entire group that we want to study

Question 4

Sample

Answer 4

The people that we find to represent this study

Question 5

True experiment

Answer 5

Has both an independent variable and a dependent variable

Question 6

Correlational studies

Answer 6

Taking two dependent variables and comparing the relationship

Question 7

Qualitative variables

Answer 7

A classification

Question 8

Quantitative variables

Answer 8

You can get a score

Question 9

Likert Scale

Answer 9

Taking a hypothetical construct and turning it into an operational definition

Question 10

Descriptive design research

Answer 10

simply observing behaviors

Question 11

Falsifiable

Answer 11

Capacity for hypothesis to be proven wrong

Question 12

Parsimony

Answer 12

Identifying simplest and most accurate explanation for brain processes and human behavior

Question 13

Research

Answer 13

Better than experience, probabilistic

Question 14

Experience

Answer 14

Has no comparison group, has confounds

Question 15

Probabilistic

Answer 15

Findings are not expected to explain all of the cases all of the time

Question 16

Intuition

Answer 16

Biased by faulty thinking, biased by motivation

Question 17

Availability heuristic

Answer 17

Being persuaded by what comes easily to mind

Question 18

Present/present bias

Answer 18

Failing to think about what we cannot see

Question 19

Confirmatory hypothesis testing

Answer 19

Asking biased questions to get expected answers

Question 20

Bias blind spot

Answer 20

Bias about being biased

Question 21

Components of an empirical article

Answer 21

Abstract, introduction, method, results, discussion, references

Question 22

Probabilistic

Answer 22

There are always exceptions

Question 23

Generalizable

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Measurable of how useful the results of a study are for a broader group of people/situations

Question 24

bivariate correlation

Answer 24

two dependent variables

Question 25

T-test

Answer 25

One independent variable (2 levels), one dependent variable

Question 26

ANOVA

Answer 26

One independent variable (more than 2 levels), one dependent variable

Question 27

CHI square

Answer 27

Two independent variables

Question 28

Basic research

Answer 28

Used to gain understanding

Question 29

Applied research

Answer 29

Used to solve systematic problems

Question 30

Confederate

Answer 30

Person who is on experiment team but pretends to be a participant in experiment

Question 31

Translational research

Answer 31

Research aimed at translating results in basic research into results that directly benefit humans

Question 32

Confederates in catharsis

Answer 32

Students wrote essay and turned it into confederate (Steve) who told them they were all terrible writers)