Chapters 1, 2, 15, 16
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| 876832757 | goal of research | enhance understanding of behavior, describe/predict/explain behavior | 0 | |
| 791193231 | basic research | answers fundamental questions about nature of behavior, examines theories, concerns basic knowledge | 1 | |
| 6451577 | applied research | addresses issues where there are problems and possible solutions | 2 | |
| 1004063428 | research similarities | neither is superior to the other, on a continuum, work in synergy | 3 | |
| 395785748 | systematic empiricism | following a set guideline and relying on observations | 4 | |
| 586306837 | public verification | ability to have others replicate and verify or challenge ideas, report to a community via journals and presentations, every finding is critiqued and open to scrutiny | 5 | |
| 236571407 | solvable problems | has to be answerable question | 6 | |
| 9596985 | theory | set of propositions that attempts to specify the interrelationships among a set of concepts | 7 | |
| 77409754 | Tripartite Theory of Attitudes | come from emotion, behavior, cognition | 8 | |
| 661781535 | post hoc explanations | explanations for observations made after the fact | 9 | |
| 395640209 | a priori predictions | predictions made beforehand about what will happen | 10 | |
| 26199075 | hindsight bias | nearly everything makes sense after it happens | 11 | |
| 567819259 | hypothesis | testable proposition that follows logically from a theory | 12 | |
| 568494637 | deduction | develop ideas based on a theory (if theory is true, then ___ should happen) | 13 | |
| 868012493 | induction | develop ideas based on observations, usually used with new phenomena | 14 | |
| 697754177 | falsifiable | ability to find the hypothesis false | 15 | |
| 33847520 | model | only describes how concepts are related, not why | 16 | |
| 248129170 | methodological pluralism | using many different methods and designs | 17 | |
| 505335782 | strategy of strong influence | test opposing predictions of two theories | 18 | |
| 862859015 | conceptual definitions | more like what is found in a dictionary, not specific to research | 19 | |
| 381551681 | operational definitions | defines a concept by specifying how it is measured in a study, essential so other researchers can replicate the experiments | 20 | |
| 846045604 | impossibility of proof | empirical support does not mean it is a true theory | 21 | |
| 853777991 | impossibility of disproof | failing to find empirical support does not mean it is a false theory | 22 | |
| 639471438 | null findings | results showing variables unrelated to behavior | 23 | |
| 92505937 | file-drawer problem | failure to publish studies with null findings | 24 | |
| 410734042 | descriptive research | describes behaviors, thoughts, or feelings of a particular group | 25 | |
| 910837397 | correlational research | investigates relationships among various psychological variables | 26 | |
| 653588683 | experimental research | determines whether variables cause changes in behavior, manipulating one variable to see its effects on another | 27 | |
| 357257209 | quasi-experimental research | researches either studies variables naturally occurring or manipulates the independent variable and controls other factors | 28 | |
| 1026942774 | behavioral variability | how and why behavior varies across situations, differs among individuals, and changes over time | 29 | |
| 673071001 | variability | extent to which data points differ from each other | 30 | |
| 273803765 | descriptive statistics | summarize and describe participants' behaviors | 31 | |
| 566772464 | inferential statistics | draw conclusions on reliability and generalizability | 32 | |
| 781805578 | variance | amount of observed variability in participant's behavior | 33 | |
| 833803175 | conceptual variance | how much variability exists, range and mean | 34 | |
| 566772743 | statistical variance | total sum of squared deviations of the scores from the mean | 35 | |
| 445428579 | total variance | systematic variance + error variance | 36 | |
| 135720080 | effect size | how strongly variables in a study are related to one another, range from 0 to 1 | 37 | |
| 147078151 | systematic variance | variance in one variable associate with variance in another variable | 38 | |
| 996794112 | error variance | variance in outcome that is not associated with the independent variable, accounts for unmeasured variables | 39 | |
| 836777607 | abstract | summary of research | 40 | |
| 836777609 | introduction | summary of prior literature, make a case for why you are studying it, present a hypothesis | 41 | |
| 621137028 | method | participants, procedure, materials, data analysis plan | 42 | |
| 403637429 | results | present and summarize analysis, present results, objective description | 43 | |
| 846147970 | discussion | takes all info and decides what it means, interpret results, strengths and limitations, how they generalize | 44 | |
| 414840361 | ethics | rules or standards for appropriate conduct | 45 | |
| 543522219 | minimal risk | can't do anything a participant wouldn't experience in everyday life, usually used very broadly | 46 | |
| 515135925 | deontology | universal standards exist and certain actors are inherently unethical | 47 | |
| 355620204 | ethical skepticism | standards imposed by an individual without universal force | 48 | |
| 574355537 | utilitarian | judging ethics based on consequences, current APA | 49 | |
| 801038483 | fabrication | make up data that was not collected | 50 | |
| 274089005 | falsification | alter data or throw some data out that doesn't support the hypothesis you want | 51 |
