Experimental Psychology (1-4)

• Experimental Psychology - Is a branch of psychology that determines if a certain variable significantly affects another variable
• Social Loafing - the tendency for people to work harder when they are part of a group than when they are working alone
• Diffusion of Responsibility - The tendency for individuals to discharge their responsibility to others by blaming others.
• Theory - is a set of related ideas that explains variety of occurences.
• Hypothesis - is a very specific testable statement that can be evaluated from observable data.
• Induction - starting from specific premises to general conclusions.
• deduction - from general information to specific conclusions.
• Parsimony - the simplest explanation that fits the evidence is the most likely
• Precision - The degree to which a measurement is accurate.
• Testability - refers to the ability to run an experiment to test a hypothesis or theory.
• Ability to fit data - relevance of the topic.
• Intervening Variable - links independet to dependent variable.
• Naturalistic Observation - sometimes referred to as fieldwork
• Case study - thorough study that relies on observations, facts, and experiments to gather data.
• Survey - involves asking participants like interview or questionnaire
• Correlational Techniques - type of research design that relationships between 2 or more variable
• Unobtrusive Observation - are likely to reveal more natural behavior than the subjects are aware of being observe
• Correlational Coefficient - often referred to as "r" indicates measures of the direction and strength of the relationship between two variables.
• Positive Correlation - variables move in the same direction.
• Negative Correlaltion - variable move in the opposite direction.
• Experiment - a scientific test in which you perform a series of actions and carefully observe their effects
• Independent variable - changed and manipulated
• dependent variable - change or manipulation
• Institutional Approval - is the process of obtaining approval from the institution
• Informed consent - intent that human participants can enter research freely
• deception - gives false information
• protection from any potential harm - people participating in research should not be exposed to risks that are not necessary for the research
• privacy and confidentiality - maintaining privacy
• right to decline or withhdraw - participants can leave at any time
• debriefing - occurs at the end of the research in which the researchers discuss the details to the participants.