The degree to which an experiment absorbs and involves its participants is known as

Which of the following distinguishes the correlational method from experimentation?

No attempt is made to systematically manipulate one or more factors with the correlational method

To determine whether changing one variable (like education) will produce changes in another (like income), we need to conduct ___________________________ research.

Experimental

"Random assignment" means that each person taking part in an experiment must

Have an equal chance of being in a given condition in the experiment.

An experiment has mundane realism if

The experimental task is similar to tasks in everyday life.

Experimental Realism

Ou would like to know the relationship between the number of psychology courses people take and their interpersonal sensitivity. You survey college students to determine how much psychology they have taken, and ask them to complete a test of social sensitivity. Finally you plot the relationship. This is an example of a

Correlational Study

Which of the following research methods would be most effective in demonstrating that the presence of others improves our performance of a task?

An experiment

A correlation between a high degree of wealth and a low likelihood of being involved in criminal activity would indicate that

The poor are more likely to be involved in criminal activity than are the wealthy.

_____ leads to a hypothesis

A Theory

General to Specific

Deductive Reasoning

Specific to General

Inductive Reasoning

___extent to which 2 or more variable are associated with one

Correlation- just show a relationship

Manipulation of one factor to see how it effects another

Experimental methods

Example of Correlational

Grave study- do heights of stones( indicate wealth) show longevity

The participants in many psychological experiments are _____ _______, which limits our ability to generalize laboratory results to everyday life.

College students

1. theory

   An integrated set of principles that explain and predict observed events

2. hypothesis

   A testable proposition that describes a relationship that may exist between events

3. field research

   Research done in natural, real-life settings outside the laboratory

4. correlational research

   The study of the naturally occurring relationships among variables

5. experimental research

   Studies that seek clues to cause-effect relationships by manipulating one or more factors while controlling others

6. independent

   The experimental factor that a researcher manipulates

7. dependent variable

   the variable being measured, so-called because it may depend on manipulations of the independent variable

8. random assignment

   the process of assigning participants to the conditions of an experiment such that all persons have the same chance of being in a given condition

9. mundane realism

   Degree to whcih an experiment is superficially similar to everyday situations

10. experimental realism

    degree to which an experiment absorbs and involves its participants

11. informed consent

    An ethical principle requiring that research participants be told enough to enable them choose whether they wish to participate

12. hindsight bias

    The tendency to exaggerate, after learning an outcome, one's ability to have foreseen how something turned out

13. self concept

    A person's answers to the qeustion, "Who Am I?"

14. self-schema

    Beliefs about self that organize and guide the processing of self-relevant information

15. individualism

    the concept of giving priority to one's own goals over group goals and defining one's identity in terms of personal attributes rather than group identifications