Psychology 2e Spielman Chapter 2 terms
Archival research - answermethod of research using past records or data sets to answer
various research questions, or to search for interesting patterns or relationships
attrition - answerreduction in number of research participants as some drop out of the ...
Archival research - answer✔✔method of research using past records or data sets to answer
various research questions, or to search for interesting patterns or relationships
attrition - answer✔✔reduction in number of research participants as some drop out of the study
over time
cause-and-effect relationship - answer✔✔changes in one variable cause the changes in the other
variable; can be determined only through an experimental research design
clinical or case study - answer✔✔observational research study focusing on one or a few people
confirmation bias - answer✔✔tendency to ignore evidence that disproves ideas or beliefs
confounding variable - answer✔✔unanticipated outside factor that affects both variables of
interest, often giving the false impression that changes in one variable causes changes in the
other variable, when, in actuality, the outside factor causes changes in both variables
control group - answer✔✔serves as a basis for comparison and controls for chance factors that
might influence the results of the study—by holding such factors constant across groups so that
the experimental manipulation is the only difference between groups
correlation - answer✔✔relationship between two or more variables; when two variables are
correlated, one variable changes as the other does
correlation coefficient - answer✔✔number from -1 to +1, indicating the strength and direction of
the relationship between variables, and usually represented by r
cross-sectional research - answer✔✔compares multiple segments of a population at a single time
debriefing - answer✔✔when an experiment involved deception, participants are told complete
and truthful information about the experiment at its conclusion
deception - answer✔✔purposely misleading experiment participants in order to maintain the
integrity of the experiment
deductive reasoning - answer✔✔results are predicted based on a general premise
dependent variable - answer✔✔variable that the researcher measures to see how much effect the
independent variable had
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