PSYCH 280 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Motivation, Rubber Band, Cerebral Cortex
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Construals: people"s interpretation and inference about the stimuli or situations they confront. Construct: the conceptual representation of behaviors or the phenomenon around which research is based. Control group: group that does not receive treatment. Correlation: mutual relationship or connection between two or more things. 1 to +1 negative: when one variable increases, the other decreases positive: as one variable increases, the other variable does too. Correlational study: research in which there is no random assignment to different situations, or conditions, and from which psychologists can just see whether or not there is a relationship between variables. Correlation does not prove causation (e. g. , a survey investigates the relationships between workers" conscientiousness and job performance) Debriefing: procedure to probe participants if they bought" a deception, understood the instructions, found the setup to be reasonable, as well as to fully clarify deceptions and the purpose and goals of the research conducted.
