AP Psycho Unit 0 Vocab 8

a research method that relies on in-depth, narrative data that are not translated into numbers.

• quantitative research

• qualitative research

• descriptive reasearch

• analytical research

giving potential participants enough information about a study to enable them to choose whether they wish to participate.

• informed consent

• debriefing

• deception

• obtaining approval from a committee

the post experimental explanation of a study, including its purpose and any deceptions, to its participants.

• debriefing

• informed consent

• parental consent

• deception

numerical data used to measure and describe characteristics of groups; include measures of central tendency and measures of variation.

• correlation

• probability

• inferential statistics

• descriptive statistics

True or False: a bar graph depicting a frequency distribution is a histogram

• True

• False