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PSYC 215 Midterm Questions & Detailed Answers
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- PSYC 215
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- California State University - San Marcos
PSYC 215 Midterm Questions & Detailed Answers
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PSYC 215 Midterm Questions & Detailed AnswersThe scientific study of how individuals think, feel, and behave in a social context -
ANS social psychology
an emphasis on how both an individual's personality and environmental
characteristics influence behavior - ANS interactionist perspective
The study of how people perceive, remember, and interpret information about
themselves and others - ANS social cognition
a subfield of psychology that examines the role of genetic factors in behavior - ANS
behavioral genetics
the study of the relationship between neural and social processes - ANS social
neuroscience
a subfield of psychology that uses the principles of evolution to understand human
social behavior. - ANS evolutionary psychology
a system of enduring meanings, beliefs, values, assumptions, institutions and
practices shared by a large group of people and transmitted from one generation
to the next - ANS culture
,research designed to compare and contrast people of different cultures - ANS
cross-cultural research
research designed to examine racial and ethnic groups within cultures - ANS
multicultural research
a testable prediction about the conditions under which an event will occur - ANS
hypothesis
an organized set of principles used to explain observed phenomena - ANS theory
research designed to increase the understanding of human behavior, often by
testing hypotheses based on a theory - ANS basic research
research designed to enlarge the understanding of naturally occurring events and
to find solutions to practical problems - ANS applied research
the specific procedures for manipulating or measuring a conceptual variable - ANS
operational definition
the extent to which the measures used in a study measure the variables they were
designed to measure and the manipulations in an experiment manipulate the
variables they were designed to manipulate - ANS construct validity
, the degree to which different observers agree on their observations - ANS
interrater reliability
the collection of data through open ended responses, observation and interviews -
ANS qualitative research
the collection of numerical data through objective testing and statistical analysis -
ANS quantitative research
a method of selecting participants for a study so that everyone in a population has
an equal chance of being in the study - ANS random sampling
research designed to measure the association between variables that are not
manipulated by the researcher - ANS correlational research
a statistical measure of the strength and direction of the association between two
variables - ANS correlation coefficient
a form of research that can demonstrate casual relationships because the
experimenter has control over the events that occur and participants are randomly
assigned to conditions - ANS experiment
a method of assigning participants to the various conditions of an experiment so
that each participant in the experiment has an equal chance of being in any of the
conditions - ANS random assignment
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