6.1 Vocabulary

Experiments that study effectiveness of medical treatments on actual patients.

• Placebo

• Clinical Trials

• Observational Study

• Subjects

This may help explain or influence changes. {Independent Variable}

• Explanatory Variable

• Response Variable

• Observational Study

• Confounding Variable

Active data production by imposing a treatment on a group in order to see what happens

• Treatment

• Observational Study

• Causation

• Experiment

An experimental condition applied to the subjects in an experiment

• Treatment

• Subjects

• Placebo Effect

• Confounding Variable

Observing, recording, and measuring as a way of data collection.

• Experiment

• Placebo Effect

• Observational Study

• Explanatory Variable

Measure an outcome of a study {dependent variable}

• Response Variable

• Explanatory Variable

• Placebo Effect

• Confounding Variable

The individuals studied in an experiment.

• Confounding

• Treatment

• Subjects

• Clinical Trials

A dummy treatment with no active ingredients.

• Clinical Trial

• Treatment

• Placebo

• Subjects

"Extra" variable that can ruin an experiment and produce useless results.

• Response Variable

• Confounding Variable

• Explanatory Variable

• Control Varible

A response to a dummy treatment

• Placebo Effect

• Treatment

• Subjects

• Clinical Trial