Research and statistics

one person is studied in depht in the hope of revealing universal principles

observing and recording behavior in naturally occuring situations without trying to manipulate it

a technique for ascertaining the self-reported attitudes or behaviors of people

subtle influences in the sequence of phrasing of questions

a sample of the whole group you want to study and describe

a sample where every person in the entire group has an equal chance of participating

all the cases in a group from which a samle can be drawn for study

the tendency to overestimate the extent to which others share our beliefs and behaviors.

the condition of an experiment that exposes participent to the treatment of independent variable

the condition of an experiment that contrasts with the experimental condition

a measure of the extent to which two factors cary togehter and how well either factor predicts the other

the mathematical expression of the correlation relationship ranging from -1 fo +1

ther preception of a relationship when none exsists

when two sets of scores are directly related to each other/ rise or fall together

when two things relate inversely

square root(sum of (deviations)squared)/ (# of scores)

if something is statistically significan, the obtained result did not occur by change