[PSY 101] - Midterm Exam Guide - Ultimate 13 pages long Study Guide!
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Descriptive research: naturalistic observation o observing and recording behavior and mental processes in someone"s natural state or habitat, survey o questions a large sample of people to assess their behaviors and attitudes o not always accurate, research designed to solve practical, case study problems; data is typically used for real world application. Correlational research: variables are observed or measured to identify relationships between them, correlation does not prove causation, 0 = not relation, the closer to 1, the stronger the relationship, + = both going up/down, a statistical r indicates that strength. Independent variable o dependent variable o experimental group vs control group o random assignment. Experimental problems: experimenter bias o when a researcher influences the results in the expected direction, sample bias o when research participants are unrepresentative of the larger population, participant bias o when experimental conditions influence the participant"s behavior or mental processes.
