AP Psychology Crash Course 2
Applied Research - ✅✅-Clear, practical applications
Assignment -✅✅-The process by which participants are put into a group
Basic Research - ✅✅-Explores questions that are of interest to psychologists
but are not intended to have immediate, real-world applications
Case Study Method - ✅✅-Used to get a full, detailed picture of one participant
or small group of participants
✅✅-Mean, median, mode
Central Tendency -
Confounding Variables - ✅✅-Any difference between the experimental and
control conditions
Control Group - ✅✅-Gets none of the independent variable and serves as a
basis for comparison
Correlation -✅✅-Measures the relationship between two variables
Correlation Coefficient - ✅✅-The strength of a correlation can be computed by
a statistic
Correlations - ✅✅-Expresses a relationship between two variable without
ascribing cause
Counterbalancing -✅✅-Using participants as their own control group
Dependent Variable - ✅✅-A change in the independent variable will produce a
change in the dependent variable
Descriptive Statistics - ✅✅-Simply describe a set of data
, Double Blind Procedure - ✅✅ -Occurs when neither the participants nor the
researcher are able to affect the outcome of the research
Experimental Group - ✅✅-The one that gets the treatment operationalized in
the independent variable
Experimenter Bias - ✅✅ -The unconscious tendency for researchers to treat
members of the experimental and control groups differently to increase the
change of confirming their hypothesis
Field Experiments - ✅✅-Conducted out in the world
Frequency Distribution - ✅✅-An arrangement of data that indicates how often a
particular score or observation occurs
Group Matching - ✅✅ -Used to ensure that the experimental and control groups
are equal on some criterion
Hawthorne Effect - ✅✅ -Participants act a certain way because they're aware
they're in an experiment.
Hindsight Bias - ✅✅ -The tendency upon hearing about research finding to think
that they knew it all along
Human Research - ✅✅ -Participation must be voluntary (no coercion), informed
consent, confidentiality, risk, debriefing
Hypothesis - ✅✅-A testable prediction often implied by the theory
Independent Variable - ✅✅-The variable that does not change
Inferential Statistics - ✅✅-Determine whether or not findings can be applied to
the larger population form which the sample was selected
Institutional Review Board (IRB) - ✅✅-Reviews research proposals for ethical
violations and/or procedural errors
Applied Research - ✅✅-Clear, practical applications
Assignment -✅✅-The process by which participants are put into a group
Basic Research - ✅✅-Explores questions that are of interest to psychologists
but are not intended to have immediate, real-world applications
Case Study Method - ✅✅-Used to get a full, detailed picture of one participant
or small group of participants
✅✅-Mean, median, mode
Central Tendency -
Confounding Variables - ✅✅-Any difference between the experimental and
control conditions
Control Group - ✅✅-Gets none of the independent variable and serves as a
basis for comparison
Correlation -✅✅-Measures the relationship between two variables
Correlation Coefficient - ✅✅-The strength of a correlation can be computed by
a statistic
Correlations - ✅✅-Expresses a relationship between two variable without
ascribing cause
Counterbalancing -✅✅-Using participants as their own control group
Dependent Variable - ✅✅-A change in the independent variable will produce a
change in the dependent variable
Descriptive Statistics - ✅✅-Simply describe a set of data
, Double Blind Procedure - ✅✅ -Occurs when neither the participants nor the
researcher are able to affect the outcome of the research
Experimental Group - ✅✅-The one that gets the treatment operationalized in
the independent variable
Experimenter Bias - ✅✅ -The unconscious tendency for researchers to treat
members of the experimental and control groups differently to increase the
change of confirming their hypothesis
Field Experiments - ✅✅-Conducted out in the world
Frequency Distribution - ✅✅-An arrangement of data that indicates how often a
particular score or observation occurs
Group Matching - ✅✅ -Used to ensure that the experimental and control groups
are equal on some criterion
Hawthorne Effect - ✅✅ -Participants act a certain way because they're aware
they're in an experiment.
Hindsight Bias - ✅✅ -The tendency upon hearing about research finding to think
that they knew it all along
Human Research - ✅✅ -Participation must be voluntary (no coercion), informed
consent, confidentiality, risk, debriefing
Hypothesis - ✅✅-A testable prediction often implied by the theory
Independent Variable - ✅✅-The variable that does not change
Inferential Statistics - ✅✅-Determine whether or not findings can be applied to
the larger population form which the sample was selected
Institutional Review Board (IRB) - ✅✅-Reviews research proposals for ethical
violations and/or procedural errors
