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AP Psych Unit 1

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Independent variable?   The variable that you are testing on the experimental group. It's variance does not depend on anything.  
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Dependent Variable?   The variable that depends on the independent variable  
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Random sample   a sample in which every element in the population has an equal chance of being selected.  
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Random assignment   Random assignment or random placement is an experimental technique for assigning subjects to different treatments  
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Placebo   A substance that has no therapeutic effect, used as a control in testing new drugs.  
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Single-blind   an experiment in which the person collecting data knows whether the subject is in the control group or the experimental group, but subjects do not.  
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Double-blind   experimenter and experimented both do not know whether subject is in the control or experimental group.  
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Control Group   To serve as a comparison to the experimental group  
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Experimental group   Group that is being tested on  
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Mean   add all numbers up then divide by the number of numbers  
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Mode   how frequent a number is present within a set of numbers. (the most commonly present number is the mode)  
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Median   Line numbers up from least to greatest. The number in the very center of the line of numbers is the median.  
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Normal Distribution   1.A function that represents the distribution of many random variables as a symmetrical bell-shaped graph  
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Standard Deviation   A quantity calculated to indicate the extent of deviation for a group as a whole.  
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Statistical Significance   a statistical statement of how likely it is that an obtained result occurred by chance.  
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p value   The p (probability) value is a calculation used in studies to determine if the results are caused by chance or not. The lower the p-value, the more likely it is that the difference between groups was caused by treatment.  
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Positive Corrolation   where an increase in one data set produces an increase in the other.  
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Negative Corrolation   A correlation where as one variable increases, the other decreases  
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Correlation Coefficient (r value)   statistic representing how closely two variables co-vary; it can vary from -1 (perfect negative correlation) through 0 (no correlation) to +1 (perfect positive correlation)  
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z score   A statistical measure that quantifies the distance (measured in standard deviations) a data point is from the mean of a data set. example: if data has a z score of +2.5 then it is +2.5 standard deviations away from the mean.  
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Variance   range or data- gap between lowest and highest score  
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Randomness   A method of sampling where subjects are chosen by chance.  
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What are the APA's 4 rules of ethics?   1. No harm 2. Confidentiality 3. Inform consent 4. If deciet is necessary, debrief  
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Case study   Study one or more individuals in great depth in the hope of revealing things tru to us all  
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Survey   used in both descriptive and correlational studies. looks at cases in less depth.  
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Naturalistic Observation   watching and recording behavior of organism in their natural environment  
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Experiment   Random assignment to groups--> cause and effect  
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Edward Thorndike   conducted the first experiment on animal learning.  
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Wilhelm Wundt   established the first psychology laboratory  
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G. Stanley Hall   established America's first psychology lab (at Johns Hopkins)  
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William James   published Principles of Psychology, the first widely used psychology textbook.  
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Mary Whiton Calkins   First female presdient of the American Psychological Association  
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Margaret Floyd Washburn   First women to recieve a Ph.D in psychology .  
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Hindsight bias   belief that you would have foreseen an outcome  
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Overconfidence   we are overconfident. Except when 1. you are about to be judged 2. You are depressed - you tend to be realistic  
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Wording effect   Words can alter how people respond to questions(anchoring- providing an artifact(false) answer to alter response  
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False consensus   the false consensus effect is a cognitive bias whereby a person tends to overestimate the degree of agreement that others have with them.  
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Illusory Correlation   perceiving a relationship between variables where none exists.  
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Confounding Variable   An unforeseen, and unaccounted-for variable that jeopardizes reliability and validity of an experiment's outcome.  
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