Research Methods in Psychology
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Scientific Thinking - ✔✔Involves the cognitive skills required to generate, test, and
revise theories
Scientific Method - ✔✔How scientists conduct research; consists of five basic processes:
observe, predict, test, interpret, and communicate
Theory - ✔✔A set of related assumptions from which testable predictions can be made
Hypothesis - ✔✔A specific, informed, and testable prediction of what kind of outcome
should occur under a particular condition
Replication - ✔✔The repetition of a study to confirm the results; it is essential to the
scientific process
Pseudoscience - ✔✔Claims presented as scientific that are not supported by evidence
obtained with the scientific method
Research Designs - ✔✔Plans of action for how to conduct a scientific study
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, Variable - ✔✔A characteristic that changes or "varies", such as age, gender, weight,
intelligence, anxiety, and extraversion
Population - ✔✔The entire group a researcher is interested in
Samples - ✔✔Subsets of the population studied in a research project
Descriptive Designs - ✔✔Study designs in which the researcher defines a problem and
variable of interest but makes no prediction and does not control or manipulate
anything
Case Study - ✔✔A study design in which a psychologist, often a therapist, observes one
person over a long period of time
Naturalistic Observation - ✔✔A study in which the researcher unobtrusively observes
and records behavior in the real world
Representative Sample - ✔✔A research sample that accurately reflects the population of
people one is studying
Meta-analysis - ✔✔A research technique for combining all research results on one
question and drawing a conclusion
Effect Size - ✔✔A measure of the strength of the relationship between two variables or
the extent of an experimental effect
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Scientific Thinking - ✔✔Involves the cognitive skills required to generate, test, and
revise theories
Scientific Method - ✔✔How scientists conduct research; consists of five basic processes:
observe, predict, test, interpret, and communicate
Theory - ✔✔A set of related assumptions from which testable predictions can be made
Hypothesis - ✔✔A specific, informed, and testable prediction of what kind of outcome
should occur under a particular condition
Replication - ✔✔The repetition of a study to confirm the results; it is essential to the
scientific process
Pseudoscience - ✔✔Claims presented as scientific that are not supported by evidence
obtained with the scientific method
Research Designs - ✔✔Plans of action for how to conduct a scientific study
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, Variable - ✔✔A characteristic that changes or "varies", such as age, gender, weight,
intelligence, anxiety, and extraversion
Population - ✔✔The entire group a researcher is interested in
Samples - ✔✔Subsets of the population studied in a research project
Descriptive Designs - ✔✔Study designs in which the researcher defines a problem and
variable of interest but makes no prediction and does not control or manipulate
anything
Case Study - ✔✔A study design in which a psychologist, often a therapist, observes one
person over a long period of time
Naturalistic Observation - ✔✔A study in which the researcher unobtrusively observes
and records behavior in the real world
Representative Sample - ✔✔A research sample that accurately reflects the population of
people one is studying
Meta-analysis - ✔✔A research technique for combining all research results on one
question and drawing a conclusion
Effect Size - ✔✔A measure of the strength of the relationship between two variables or
the extent of an experimental effect
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