Practice 1

Ethical guideline for human studies that states participants should be able to leave a study at any time if they feel uncomfortable.

• Confidentiality

• Deception

• Informed consent

• Right to withdraw

A step-by-step, standardized way of testing human behavior, thoughts, and psychological theories that prevents biases and other problematic factors from skewing experiments.

• Case study

• Naturalistic Observation

• Scientific method

• Experimental method

An in-depth study of an individual, group or event that analyzes causes for behavior and psychological phenomena.

• Case study

• Experimental method

• Survey method

• Naturalistic observation

Ethical guideline for human studies that states participants should be able to talk with the psychologist regarding the intentions and findings of the study.

• Debriefing

• Deception

• Confidentiality

• Informed consent

Variable in the experiment that is manipulated by the researcher.

• Dependent variable

• Independent variable

• Confounding variable

• Compromising variable

An educated guess or answer to your research question that you then test through study and experimentation.

• Scientific method

• Operational definition

• Hypothesis

• Research question

What is the dependent variable in this hypothesis?

Students with piercings have lower GPAs than students who do not have piercings.

• Students with piercings

• Students without piercings

• Classroom

• GPA

Billy Bob signs up for a large study that is being conducted in a university lab. The professor is controlling all aspects of the environment.

Which method is likely being used?

• Experimental method

• Case study

• Naturalistic observation

• Case study

Susana is part of an experiment but all of the sudden she's experiencing increased dizziness. She tells the research that she wants to leave but he demands she stays and completes it.

What ethical guideline is being violated?

• Confidentiality

• Debriefing

• Deception

• Right to withdraw

What is Mr. Boggs' dog's name?

• Sassy

• Minnie

• Ralph

• Winnie