AP Psych Chapter 1
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| an observation technique in which one person is studied in depth in the hope of revealing universal principles | ||
| a technique for ascertaining the self- reported attitudes or behaviors of people, usually by questioning a representative, random sample of them | ||
| a statistical measure of the extent to which 2 factors vary together, and thus of how well either factor predicts the other | ||
| the perception of a relationship where none exists | ||
| condition of an experiment that contrasts with the experimental condition and serves as a comparison for evaluating the effect of the treatment | ||
| the experimental factor that is manipulated; the variable whose effect is being studied | ||
| the experimental factor- the behavior or mental process- that is being measured; the variable that may change in response to the manipulations of the independent variable | ||
| a computed measure of how much scores vary around the mean score |