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Scientific investigation of how people’s thoughts, feelings and behaviour are influenced by the actual, imagined or implied presence of others.
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Experimental Method (p. 679)
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Psychology (Burton, Weston and Kowalski, 2019, p. 5)
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Social Psychology (p. 4)
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Field experiment (p. 12)
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A set of interrelated concepts and principles that explain a phenomenon.
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Any phenomenon that can differ or vary from one situation to another or one person to another.
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Empirically testable predictions about what co-occurs with what, or what causes what.
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Theory (p. 4)
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Hypotheses (p. 8)
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Idea
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Explanation
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A representative group of participants selected from the population under examination.
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Population (Burton, Weston and Kowalski, 2019, p. 69)
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Sample (Burton, Weston and Kowalski, 2019, p. 69)
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Control Group (Burton, Weston and Kowalski, 2019, p. 79)
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Experimental Group (Burton, Weston and Kowalski, 2019, p. 79)
Pregunta 6
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When two or more independent variables covary in such a way that is impossible to know which has caused the effect.
Pregunta 7
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When statistics reveal that the effect, or a larger effect, is unlikely to occur by chance more often that 1 in 20 times.
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Internal Validity (p. 12)
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External Validity (p. 12)
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Statistical Significance (p. 15)
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Correlation (p. 13)
Pregunta 8
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Intentional manipulation of independent variables to investigate effects on one or more dependent variable/s.
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Field Experiment (p. 12)
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Experimental Method (p. 679)
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Random Allocation (Burton, Weston and Kowalski, 2019, p. 80)
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Double-Blind Procedure (p. 12)
Pregunta 9
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Features of a situation that change of their own accord or can be manipulated by an experimenter to have effects on a measurable variable.
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Experimental Variable
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Dependent Variable (p. 10)
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Independent Variable (p. 9)
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Experimenter Effects (p. 12)
Pregunta 10
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Measurable variable/s that change resulting from changes in the manipulated variable.
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Experimenter Effects (p. 12)
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Independent Variable (p. 9)
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Dependent Variable (p. 10)
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Subject Effects (p. 12)
Pregunta 11
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Similarity between circumstances surrounding an experiment and circumstances in everyday life.
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Internal Validity (p. 12)
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External Validity (p. 12)
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Statistical Significance (p. 15)
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Case Study (p. 13)
Pregunta 12
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Validity of the design itself.
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External Validity (p. 12)
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Internal Validity (p. 12)
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Correlation (p. 13)
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Statistical Significance (p. 15)
Pregunta 13
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A larger group to whom research findings should be applicable.
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Sample (Burton, Weston and Kowalski, 2019, p. 69)
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Population (Burton, Weston and Kowalski, 2019, p. 69)
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Experimental Group (Burton, Weston and Kowalski, 2019, p. 79)
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Control Group (Burton, Weston and Kowalski, 2019, p. 79)
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Recruitment of participants selected from the population in a relatively arbitrary manner.
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Random Sampling (Burton, Weston and Kowalski, 2019, p. 88)
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Random Allocation (Burton, Weston and Kowalski, 2019, p. 80)
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Double-Blind Procedure (p. 12)
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Sample (Burton, Weston and Kowalski, 2019, p. 69)
Pregunta 15
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Assigning participants to each of the experimental conditions in a relatively arbitrary manner.
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Double-Blind Procedure (p. 12)
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Random Allocation (Burton, Weston and Kowalski, 2019, p. 80)
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Random Grouping
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Experimental Group (Burton, Weston and Kowalski, 2019, p. 79)
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Group of participants in an experiment who are exposed to the independent variable under examination.
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Control Group (Burton, Weston and Kowalski, 2019, p. 79)
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Experimental Group (Burton, Weston and Kowalski, 2019, p. 79)
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Sample (Burton, Weston and Kowalski, 2019, p. 69)
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Test Subjects
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Group of participants in an experiment who receive a relatively neutral condition to serve as a comparison group.
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Experimental Group (Burton, Weston and Kowalski, 2019, p. 79)
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Control Group (Burton, Weston and Kowalski, 2019, p. 79)
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Placebo Group
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Sample (Burton, Weston and Kowalski, 2019, p. 69)
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Effects that are not spontaneous, owing to demand characteristics and/or participants wishing to please the experimenter.
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Demand Characteristics (p. 12)
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Subject Effects (p. 12)
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Experimenter Effects (p. 12)
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Confounding (and confounding variable; p. 10)
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Features of an experiment that seem to expect a certain response.
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Effects produced or influenced by clues to the hypotheses under examination, inadvertently communicated by the experimenter.
Pregunta 21
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Procedure to reduce experimenter effects, in which the experimenter is unaware of the experimental conditions.
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Double-Blind Procedure (p. 12)
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Respect for Privacy (p. 19)
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Use of Deception (p. 19)
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Experimenter Effects (p. 12)
Pregunta 22
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Method that does not involve the manipulation of independent variables against a background of random assignment to condition.
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Field Experiment (p. 12)
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Laboratory Experiment (p. 11)
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Non-Experimental Method (p. 12)
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Experimental Method (p. 679)
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Where changes in one variable reliably map onto changes in another variable, but it cannot be determined which of the two variables caused the change (or whether a third variable causes an interaction effect).
Pregunta 24
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Non-experimental method involving the assembly of data, or reports of data, collected by others.
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Case Study (p. 13)
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Archival Research (p. 13)
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Field Experiment (p. 12)
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Random Sampling (Burton, Weston and Kowalski, 2019, p. 88)
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In-depth analysis of a single case (or individual).
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Ensuring participants are not exposed to physical harm.
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Ensuring that data obtained from individuals are entirely confidential.
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Hiding the true nature of the experiment until data is collected.
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A way to safeguard participants’ rights in experiments.
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Detailed explanation of the experiment and its broader theoretical and applied context.
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Theory (p. 4)
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Hypotheses (p. 8)
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Use of Deception (p. 19)
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Informed Consent (p. 19)
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Debriefing (p. 20)