Psychology Exam test queries and
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Scientific Thinking - ANS✅✅Involves the cognitive skills required to generate, test, and revise
theories
Scientific Method - ANS✅✅How scientists conduct research; consists of five basic processes:
observe, predict, test, interpret, and communicate
Theory - ANS✅✅A set of related assumptions from which testable predictions can be made
Hypothesis - ANS✅✅A specific, informed, and testable prediction of what kind of outcome should
occur under a particular condition
Replication - ANS✅✅The repetition of a study to confirm the results; it is essential to the scientific
process
Pseudoscience - ANS✅✅Claims presented as scientific that are not supported by evidence
obtained with the scientific method
Research Designs - ANS✅✅Plans of action for how to conduct a scientific study
Variable - ANS✅✅A characteristic that changes or "varies", such as age, gender, weight,
intelligence, anxiety, and extraversion
Population - ANS✅✅The entire group a researcher is interested in
Samples - ANS✅✅Subsets of the population studied in a research project
Descriptive Designs - ANS✅✅Study designs in which the researcher defines a problem and variable
of interest but makes no prediction and does not control or manipulate anything
answers graded A+
Scientific Thinking - ANS✅✅Involves the cognitive skills required to generate, test, and revise
theories
Scientific Method - ANS✅✅How scientists conduct research; consists of five basic processes:
observe, predict, test, interpret, and communicate
Theory - ANS✅✅A set of related assumptions from which testable predictions can be made
Hypothesis - ANS✅✅A specific, informed, and testable prediction of what kind of outcome should
occur under a particular condition
Replication - ANS✅✅The repetition of a study to confirm the results; it is essential to the scientific
process
Pseudoscience - ANS✅✅Claims presented as scientific that are not supported by evidence
obtained with the scientific method
Research Designs - ANS✅✅Plans of action for how to conduct a scientific study
Variable - ANS✅✅A characteristic that changes or "varies", such as age, gender, weight,
intelligence, anxiety, and extraversion
Population - ANS✅✅The entire group a researcher is interested in
Samples - ANS✅✅Subsets of the population studied in a research project
Descriptive Designs - ANS✅✅Study designs in which the researcher defines a problem and variable
of interest but makes no prediction and does not control or manipulate anything
