Psychology 200 Chapter 1 Questions and
Answers 2024 Update
Debrief - ANS ✔✔ - correct any misconceptions that participants may have had about the research.
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Informed consent and voluntary participation - ANS ✔✔ - subjects must be informed of significant factors which might
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influence his/her willingness to participate in the study
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Social desirability bias - ANS ✔✔ - Answering or acting in a socially approved manner
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Double-blind experiment - ANS ✔✔ - neither the experimenter nor the subjects know which subjects are in the treatment
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group & which are in the control group. A good way to avoid the experimenter effect.
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Experimenter effect (bias) - ANS ✔✔ - occurs when an experimenter unintentionally encourages subjects to respond in a way
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that supports the hypothesis
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Placebo effect - ANS ✔✔ - a physical or psychological treatment that contains no active ingredient but produces an effect
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because the person receiving believes it will
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Control condition (group) - ANS ✔✔ - group who is exposed to all the same factors as the exp. Group except the factor being
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manipulated. This group serves as a point of comparison for the experimental condition
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Experimental group (or condition) - ANS ✔✔ - the group that undergoes the exp. treatment ty ty ty ty ty ty ty ty ty ty ty ty ty ty
Extraneous variable - ANS ✔✔ - factor(s) in an experiment that need to be controlled or eliminated so as not to affect the DV.
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(such as gender)
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Confound variable - ANS ✔✔ - any factor(s), other than the variable being manipulated by the experimenter, that might affect
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the DV. and IOWs: Factor(s) that are possible causes of a phenomenon & that interferes w/accurate measurement of the
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causal factor under study.
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Dependent variable - ANS ✔✔ - variable that the experimenter measures (the effect). ty ty ty ty ty ty ty ty ty ty ty ty
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Variable - ANS ✔✔ - something that can vary, something that is capable of change
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Randomized - ANS ✔✔ - each person in the group has an equal chance of being selected to be in the sample. (random
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•is best method to use to determine a cause & effect relationship.
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Positive vs negative correlation - ANS ✔✔ - -Positive correlation: one variable goes up in relation to another variable going
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