PSYCH 1100 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Confirmation Bias, Operationalization, Dependent And Independent Variables

• School: Ohio State University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 1100
• Professor: Heena Manglani

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*this is just meant to be a guide for your studying. You should understand and know how to apply all of these terms. Alternative hypothesis: statistical significance, ethical research, human subjects, irb, animal subjects, confirmation bias. Practice questions: janet conducted a study to see if cold weather boosted the coffee sales at a local. Her study found that the correlation between temperature and coffee sales was -. 78. Which of the following could describe this correlation: weak positive correlation, weak negative correlation, strong positive correlation, strong negative correlation, one day in class, talia texts her friend at the same time they text her. Talia believes that it must be because her friend is thinking of her. However, talia fails to notice all of the times that she texts her friend and they do not text her at the same time. He places 5-month-old children into two groups: one that listens to music every day and one that does not.