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WorksheetsAP Psychology, Unit 1, Part 2
Total questions: 39
Worksheet time: 20mins
The tendency to believe after learning the outcome, that you could've foreseen something
Hindsight bias
sampling bias
correlation
past bias
theory
a technique for finding peoples feelngs
anything that can change
an explanation that uses a set of principles to organize behaviors and predict future events
a testable prediction
Testable prediction
theory
scientific method
Hypothesis
operational definition
A carefully worded statement of the exact procedures used in a study, for example "smart" can be defined as an IQ of at least 110.
descriptive statistics
correlation
debrief
operational definition
repeating the essence of a study with different individuals in different situations
replicate
retrieve
double blind experiment
confounding variable
an individual or group is studied in depth in the hope of revealing human principles
random sample
case study
survey
experiment
observing and recording behavior in naturally occurring situations without trying to manipulate the situation
naturalistic observation
case study
single blind experiment
basic research
a technique for finding peoples feelings
case study
survey
experiment
study
a flawed sampling process
confounding sample
flawed sample
placebo effect
sampling bias
everyone in a group being studied
population
group
sample
community
a subset of a population where people are chosen arbitrarily
representative sample
random population
random sample
individuals
the extent to which two factors vary together
statistical signifigance
correlation
variables
regression towards the mean
a statistical relationship between two factors
scatterplot
standard deviation
statistical signifigance
correlation coefficient
anything in a study that can change
variables
theory
validity
inferential statistics
a graphed cluster of dots
dot plot
scatterplot
histogram
normal curve
the tendency for extreme scores to fall back towards the average
extreme deviation rule
skewed
regression towards the mean
mean
a research method where investigators manipulate a variable to measure its effect on another variable
case study
naturalistic observation
theory
experiment
a group exposed to the new treatment
experimental group
control group
treatment group
study group
group that is not exposed to the treatment
independent group
control group
experimental group
dependent group
putting individuals in experimental or control groups completely by chance
experimental / control testing
experiment
random sample
randomly assign
an experiment in which both the investigators and participants don't know who is the control group and who is experimental group
placebo effect
blind experiment
uninformed bias prevention
double blind procedure
Experimental results based on expectation alone
exposure bias
Placebo effect
Sampling Bias
Correlation
The factor being changed
independent variable
confounding variable
dependent variable
experimental variable
how extensively an experiment measures what it's supposed to
correlation coefficient
replicate
bias
validity
a factor other than what's being studied that could influence the results
independent variable
confounding variable
control variable
dependent variable
the factor being measured
independent variable
control variable
dependent variable
confounding variable
giving potential participants enough information for them to choose if they will participate or not
informed consent
validity
ethics
debrief
an explanation after the experiment
ethics
validity
survey
debrief
numerical data used to describe the characteristics of the group
inferential statistics
descriptive statistics
statistical significance
representative sample
a bar graph showing frequency distribution
histogram
scatter plot
graph
normal curve
most frequently occurring score
mode
mean
median
range
average score
range
median
mean
mode
the middle score when the numbers are in numerical order
mode
mean
range
median
the difference between the highest and lowest scores
domain
standard deviation
mode
range
how much the scores vary around the mean
skew
standard deviation
normal curve
mean
skewed
scores that aren't symmetrical around the mean
scores that aren't symmetrical around the mode
how much scores vary around the mean
scores that aren't symmetrical around the median
bell curve
histogram
skewed
normal curve
numerical data that lets you generalize something about a larger population
inferential statistics
statistical signifigance
representative sample
random sample
how likely it is that an obtain result occurred by chance
descriptive statistics
statistical signifigance
inferential statistics
validity
