FREE PSYCHOLOGY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT PSYC220

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FREE PSYCHOLOGY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT PSYC220

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Question 1: Why is documentation important?

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Documentation is used in a paper to give credit to the work of other authors, to show the larger framework in which your ideas belong.Question 2: Are changing criterion and multiple baseline designs forms of operant conditioning?

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Yes.

Question 3: Definition of Clinical significance

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The practical importance of a results Question 4: What is a widely used method of gathering scientific data and is used to determine how people feel about a particular issue?

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A survey

Question 5: What is a repeated treatment design?

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Design where treatment is withdrawn and then presented a second time.

Question 6: What is a dependent variable?

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A measure of the subjects behavior that reflects the independent variables effects

Question 7: What should be included in an informed consent?

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Any risks or adverse effects. Include information about factors that might affect the willingness to participate

Question 8: A protocol is...?

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List of all the steps that a subject goes through in a study.

Question 9: What is the APA ethics code requirement on deception?

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the participant who has been deceived must be provided with a sufficient explanation of the deception after the experiment is completed.

Question 10: What is a confounded variable?

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One whose effect cannot be separated from the supposed independent variable.

Question 11: What sample is achieved by choosing every nth person from a list?

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Systematic sample Question 12: When a scale looks like this Agree---------------------Disagree and the participants can choose their degree of agreement or disagreement, what is it called?

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Visual analogue scale

Question 13: How does maturation play a role in threatening Internal validity?

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Maturation is a source of error in an experiment related to the amount of time between measurements.

Question 14: Advantages of single subject design

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Focusing on individual performanceFocusing on the big effectsAvoid ethical practical problemsFlexibility in design

Question 15: What are three practical limitations on science?

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1) Scientists work on problems that seem capable of having a solution

2) Cost of research

3) Existing methods needed to carry out experiments Question 16: If the subjects are not assigned to conditions randomly, the statistical tests are valid. True/False

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False. ...tests are not valid.

Question 17: Empty cells in a data matrix.

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Missing data

Question 18: What is program evaluation?

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Set of techniques for determining the effectiveness of a social service program.Question 19: T or F-When something is discovered in science it cannot be changed

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False, science is self-correcting so always finding new data.

Question 20: What is a visual analogue scale?

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A question that asks for a response by marking a line between the minimum or maximum value for the statement Question 21: Term? All potential confounding variables associated with the group members can be ruled out except when they become associated with the conditions by chance when using..

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Random assignment or random allocation Question 22: If you wanted to reflect the correct proportions of a variable (ex. Gender) of a population, what form of sampling would you use?

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Stratified random sampling.Question 23: True or False: It is impossible to have an interaction when neither independent variable has a main effect.

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False

Question 24: What is common sense?

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This is practical intelligence shared by a large group of people steps.Question 25: Research design that involves all combinations or at least two or more independent variables (12.1 - 2 X 2 X 2 Factorial)Factorial Design

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Factorial Design

Question 26: What is randomized-response method?

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A survey technique that encourages honesty by introducing a random variable that makes it impossible to identify whether an answer is true of a particular individual.