Psychology Research

A ________ is a tentative and testable statement about the relationship between two or more variables

• Hypothesis

• fact

• correlation

• deception

What is a research method?

• Case studies

• Observation

• Longitudinal research

• All of the above

A _____ is a subset of individuals selected from a population

A _______means that there is a relationship between two or more variables, but this relationship does not necessarily imply cause and effect.

• attrition

• correlation

• hypothesis

• positive correlation

Hypothesis: How long you sleep (_____ variable) affects your test score (_____ variable)

• independent, dependent

• dependent, independent

• Both are dependent variables

• Both are independent variables

______ refers to the ability to consistently produce a given result.

• Operational definition

• Falsification

• Reliability

• Validity

Tendency to look for evidence that confirms one's ideas or beliefs

• Self-serving bias

• Confirmation Bias

• Hindsight bias

• Placebo Effect

_______ well-developed set of ideas that propose an explanation for observed phenomena

• Theory

• Hypothesis

• Fact

• Attrition

_________ refers to the extent to which a given instrument or tool accurately measures what it’s supposed to measure,

• Reliability

• Statistical Analysis

• Validity

• Generalization

The larger the population, the more one can ______ the results

• analyze

• neutralize

• deny

• generalize