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If your not sure what answer should be entered, press the space bar and the next missing letter will be displayed. When you are all done, you should look back over all your answers and review the ones in red. These ones in red are the ones which you needed help on. Question: prefrontal Answer: surgical procedure that severs fibers connecting the frontal of re brain from underlying thalamus. Question: ..Answer: Mental shortcuts that help us to streamline our and make sense of our world. Question: Representativeness Answer: heuristic that involves judging the probibility of an event by its superficial similarity to a (judging a book by its cover... using stereotypes, etc.) Question: base Answer: how a characteristic or behavior is in the general population. Question: heuristicAnswer: estimating the liklihood of an event by the ease at it comes to our minds Question: biasesAnswer: systematic errors in Question: biasAnswer: tendency to overestimate how well we could have successfully known outcomes Question: Answer: tendency to our ability to make correct predictions. Question: observationAnswer: watching behavior in real-world Question: external Answer: extent to we can generalize findings to real world settings Question: naturalistic advantagesAnswer: high of external validity Question: naturalistic observation Answer: low degree of internal validity, is the extent to which we can draw cause&effect inferences. Question: validityAnswer: the extent to we can draw cause & effect influences from a study Question: case Answer: research design that examines one person or a small number of people in depth, for a long period of time Question: proofsAnswer: demonstrations that a psychological phonomenon can occur. Question: adv of case Answer: helpful in proofs, can study rare phonomena Question: disadv of case Answer: depth is traded for breadth, low external validity (can be and anecdotal) Question: correlational Answer: research design that determines the to which two variables are associated Question: correlational (r=)Answer: 0 = no association, 1 = positive association (same), -1 = association (inverted) Question: scatterplotAnswer: grouping of points on a 2d graph in which each dot represents a person's data Question: correlationAnswer: perception of a statistical association between two variables when none Question: research designAnswer: design characterized by 1. random assignment of participants to , and 2. manipulation of an independent variable Question: ASSIGNMENTAnswer: randomly assigning participants to either control or group Question: experimental Answer: group that recieves the Question: control Answer: group that doesn't recieve Question: independent Answer: that an experimenter manipulates Question: variableAnswer: variable that measures to see whether the manipulation has an effect Question: Answer: any difference between experimental and groups (other than ind. variable) Question: Experiment & Causation Vs. Answer: Experiments permit us to infer cause and relationships. Question: meta-analysisAnswer: investigation of the consistency of patterns of results across numbers of studies from different laboratories Question: file drawer Answer: tendency for findings not to be published Question: effectAnswer: improvement from expectation of Question: Answer: harm from expectation of Question: blindAnswer: whether one is in the control or experimental group Question: experimenter effectAnswer: phonomenon in which researchers' hypothesis lead them to unintentionally bias a outcome Question: double Answer: neither nor participants know which group is control / experimental Question: effectAnswer: participants knowledge that they're being studied affects their Question: SELECTIONAnswer: every population member has chance of being selected to particpate Question: characteristicsAnswer: cues that participants pic up from a that allow them to generate guesses regarding its hypothesis. (type of hawthorne effect) Question: Answer: consistency of Question: validityAnswer: extent to which a measure what it claims to measure Question: reliability vs Answer: a test must be reliable to be valid, but a reliable test can be completely invalid. Question: self measuresAnswer: surveys, Question: advantages of self measuresAnswer: easy, to person Question: Answer: assumes can be inaccurate, response sets Question: response Answer: tendencies of research participants to distort their responses to questionaire Question: halo Answer: of ratings of one positive characteristic to influence the ratings of other positive characteristics Question: effectAnswer: of halo effect Question: effectAnswer: tendency of raters to provide that are overly generous Question: error of tendencyAnswer: an unwillingness to extreme ratings Question: ethical guidelines for researchAnswer: 1. review by an review board 2. informed consent 3. justification of deception 4. debreifing Question: ethical in animal researchAnswer: 1. use whenever humans cant be used. 2. any pain must be by expected benefits of human welfare Question: informed Answer: informing research participants of what is involved in a study before asking them to Question: statisticsAnswer: application of mathematics to describing and data Question: statisticsAnswer: categorizations that describe data Question: tendencyAnswer: measure of the "central" scores in a data set, or where the group to cluster Question: Answer: average; a measure of tendency Question: Answer: middle score in a data set, a measure of central Question: modeAnswer: most score in a data set, a measure of central tendency Question: Answer: how loosely or bunched scores are Question: rangeAnswer: difference highest and lowest scores, a measure of dispersion Question: deviationAnswer: a measure of dispersion that takes into account how far each data is from the mean Question: inferential Answer: mathematical methods that allow us to determine we can generalize findings from our sample to the full population |
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