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ap psychology
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| psychodynomic | unconscious, conflict or childhood experience shape behavior |
| socialcultural | social norms |
| humanistic | free will, personal growth and self-realization |
| biological | study behavior in humans and animals |
| evolutionary | serves as adaptions |
| behavioral | learned through interaction with the environment |
| cognitive | mental process |
| institutional review board | composed of diverse group |
| protect participants from harm | carefully assess |
| informed consent | individuals voluntarily agree |
| informed assent | a child agreement |
| deception | misleading participants |
| confederates | fake participants working with researchers |
| debriefing | participants are told what happened |
| confidentiality | kept private |
| 68 | always the percentage unless curved |
| small standard deviation | similar scores to one another |
| statistical significance | observed results using p-value |
| peer review | proposal to several experts |
| replication | repeating research study to see similar/compare results |
| reliability | consistent responses |
| validity | measuring |
| falsifiable | able to be disproven |
| quantitative data | responses to likert scale style questions |
| qualitative data | response to open ended questions |
| hypothesis | predication |
| social desirability bias | response in favored by others |
| sample | a subset of people from a large population |
| sampling bias | not representative of the large population |
| representative sample | accurately reflects a demographic |
| generalizability | extending their conclusions |
| random assignment | diving the participants into 2 groups |
| experimental group | being tested |
| control group | not being bested |
| confounding variable | same study but different results |
| independent variable | manipulated |
| dependent variable | observed for change |
| single blind | participants aren't aware but the researcher are |
| experimenter bias | unintentionally treat participants differently |
| double blind | both participants and researchers don't know |
| correlational study | examine the relationship between two or more variable |
| naturalistic observation | observe and record behavior in real- world setting |
| meta-analysis | grabbing multiple research studies on the same topic to draw conclusions |
| effect sizes | understand impact |
| outlier | low score |
| percentile rank | score high |
| negative skew | long tail to the left |
| standard devination | clustered close together |
| normal distribution | bell-shaped curve around the mean |
| bimodal distribution | 2 distant peaks |
| statistical significance | p-value |
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