AP Psych Unit test 1

==Correlation== - the relationship between two variable

  • -1, and 1 both are greater
  • When over -1 and 1 there is no correlation, 0 is the weakest
  • Negative is wording effect
  • You want a large group, with a small standard deviation

  ==Ethics== - moral principles that govern a person's behavior or the conducting of an activity.

  1. Approval
  2. Informed consent
  3. Depriving information
  4. Moderate discomfort
  5. Privacy

   @@Experiment@@ - Shows the cause and effect    * Quasi-experiment - An experiment that doesn’t rely on random assignment    * Double-blind experiment - when neither the person conducting the experiment nor the people being experimented on know which group has placedo or the real deal.

     ==Survey== - A self-reporting questionnaire    * Pros - You can get information, very quickly    * Cons - Wording effect (asking leasing questions to get an answer)

     ==Theory ==- An integrated set of principles

     ==Random assignment ==- eliminates the confounding variables

     ==illusory correlations== - when we see an association between two variables when they aren't actually associated.

      

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