WorksheetsResearch Methods
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 7mins
Psychology is the scientific study of?
Science and Non-Science
Behavior and Mental Processes
Non-human animals
Descriptive studies
___________ _________ is high when confounding variables have been controlled and we are quite certain that it was the change in the IV that caused the change in the DV.
External validity
Population validity
Internal validity
Ecological validity
Which is NOT a step of the scientific method?
Hypothesis
Problem
Count items
Draw Conclusions
What does it mean to draw conclusions?
make a guess
test a theory to see if it is true
try something new
use data to make an assumption/theory
What is a theory?
a guess on how something works
a tested conclusion accepted as true
a story explaining how the world works
an assumption
What is replication?
cloning the scientist who first did an experiment
doing an experiment for the first time
doing an experiment again and getting different results
Doing an experiment again and getting the same results
EV's are always controlled in a LAB experiment
The ___________is expected to change as the IV changes.
IV
DV
Controls
Samples
The thing that the researcher deliberately changes in an experiment is called the
Dependent Variable
Extraneous Variable
Random Variable
Independent Variable
An Extraneous Variable (EV) is
Anything that can unexpectantly effect the results of an experiment
Anything that is measured in an experiment
Anything that is not measured in an experiment
Anything not included in the experiment
in psychology an experiments Validity relates to
Values of researchers
Real world comparisons
how honest participants are
the cost of running experiments
