AP Psychology Unit 0

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The science of behavior and mental processes.

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Psychology

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How can you "operationalize" verbal aggression?

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The number of insulting comments per hour.

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The ethical guideline for research in which participants must agree to be a part of the study is known as

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Informed consent

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The names of the participants in a research experiment must be kept secret is an ethical guideline known as

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Confidentiality

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A carefully worded statement of the exact procedures used in a research experiment is known as

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operational definition

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The participants in research who receive the experimental treatment to measure its effects.

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Experimental group

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The tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen it.

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hindsight bias

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In an experiment, the group that is not exposed to the treatment being studied.

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control group

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This is a method of research where an investigator manipulates one or more factors (independent variables) to observe the effect on some behavior or mental process (the dependent variable).

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Experiments

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Researchers want to know how happiness is impacted by the color of your socks. Color of socks would be the...

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Independent Variable