Psychology Research Vocab

An uncontrolled variable in an experiment

• Theory

• Dependent Variable

• Confounding Variable

• Independent Variable

The variable being measured in an experiment

• confounding variable

• independent variable

• survey

• dependent variable

A testable prediction

• control group

• hypothesis

• theory

• survey

The research strategy in which the effects of one or more variables on behavior are tested.

• hypothesis

• theory

• experiment

• confounding variable

The variable being manipulated in an experiment

• replication

• dependent variable

• independent variable

• control group

Experimental procedure in which neither the research participant nor the experimenter knows which condition the participant is in

• theory

• control group

• double-blind procedure

• experiment

the "treatment absent" group in an experiment

• random assignment

• experiment

• control group

• experimental group

the "treatment -present" group in an experiment

• survey

• experiment

• experimental group

• control group