Psych 100 Final Exam Crosby PSU Questions and Answers(RATED A+)

case study - ANSWER detailed examinations/investigations of one subject adv: detailed, only way to gather certain types of info limits: info gained cannot be applied to other cases, vulnerable to bias control group - ANSWER group that is not exposed to the independent variable correlations - ANSWER a measure of the relationship between two variables dependent variable - ANSWER variable that represents the measurable response of participants experiment - ANSWER the only method that allows researchers to determine the cause of a behavior experimental group - ANSWER group that is exposed to the change that the independent variable represents hypothesis - ANSWER tentative explanation of a phenomenon based on observations independent variable - ANSWER variable that is being manipulated in an experiment laboratory observation - ANSWER involves watching animals or people in an artificial but controlled environment (like a lab) adv: high level of control limits: artificial setting (may not happen naturally) naturalistic observation - ANSWER involves watching animals or people in their natural environments adv: happens in one's own natural environment limits: lack of control observer bias - ANSWER the tendency for animals/people to behave differently if they know they are being observed (observer effect) observer effect - ANSWER the tendency for observers to see what they expect to see (observer bias) placebo effect - ANSWER expectations and biases of participants that can affect their behavior p