Descriptive Research Quiz

What is an in-depth investigation of an individual subject.

• Case Study
• Control Group
• Response Set
• Standard Deviation 

Subjects in a study who do not receive the special treatment given to the experimental group.

• Experimental group
• Control Group
• Hypothesis
• Meditation

Statistics that are used to interpret data and draw conclusions.

• Independent variable
• Replication
• Inferential statistics
• Statistical significance

The collection of subjects selected for observation in an empirical study.

• Sample
• Journal
• Descriptive statistics
• Replication

The persons or animals whose behavior is systematically observed in a study.

• Confounding of variables
• Theory
• Naturalistic observation
• Participants

The use of mathematics to organize, summarize, and interpret numerical data.

• Sampling bias
• Statistics
• Naturalistic observation
• Variability

A system of interrelated ideas that is used to explain a set of observations.

• Hypothesis
• Placebo effects
• Theory
• Empiricism

The score that falls exactly in the center of a distribution of scores.

• Median
• Meditation
• Mode
• Mean

The need to associate with others and maintain social bonds.

• Confounding of variables
• Operational definition
• Affiliation motive
• Social desirability bias

An American psychologist who supported the experimentation on animals in order to help humans.

• Robert Rosenthal
• Stanley Schachter
• Neal Miller