Psych 2

A definition that defines a concept in terms of the steps and procedures used to measure that concept.

The methods used to measure and describe aspects of behaviour and experience.

An individual's behaviour is changed in some way by being observed.

Refers to how well the results of a research study generalize to other situations or are representative of real life .

A research technique that involves recording only naturally occurring behaviour, as opposed to behaviour produced in the laboratory.

Biologists who study the behaviour of animals in the wild.

Type of naturalistic observation in which the observer becomes a part of the activities being studied.

Descriptive research technique in which the researcher focuses on a single case and studies and describes that case in great detail and depth.

A descriptive research technique designed to gather limited amounts of information from many people, usually by administering a questionnaire.

The complete group that the researcher wants to learn about is called?

The subset of individuals rom the target population are measured is referred to as a?

These tests measure a person's current level of knowledge or competence in a particular subject compared with others.

These tests are designed to measure a person's potential for success in a given profession or area of study.

These tests assess effects of various kinds of brain damage on cognitive performance.

To define a psychological variable operationally is to define it in terms of the steps or procedures that are used to ____ that variable.

The ____ technique, in which one or a few individuals are studied in depth, is open to criticism because its results may lack ____; that is, the results may not generalize to or be representative of the population as a whole.

When behaviour changes as a result of the observation process, the study may suffer form the problem of ____.

The descriptive research technique used to gather information from many people is called a ____.

A technique in which the investigator actively manipulates or alters some aspect of the environment independently of other variables and observes the effect of the manipulation on behaviour.

The aspect of the environment that is manipulated by the researcher in an experiment; manipulation must consist of at least two conditions.

The behaviour that is measured in an experiment.

An uncontrolled variable that changes along with the independent variable.

The extent to which an experimenter has effectively controlled for confounding variables; internally valid experiments allow for the determination of causality.

An experiment design in which the participants do now know to which of the conditions they have been assigned; used to control for subject expectancies.

An experimental design in which neither the participants nor the research observers are aware of who has been assigned to the experimental and control groups; used to control for both subject and experimenter expectancies.

How much the scores in the set differ from one another.

An indication of how much individual scores differ or vary from the mean in a set of scores.