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Institutional Review Board (IRB) |
A committee designated to ensure the Ethical treatment of research subjects |
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Practicum |
A paid or unpaid position with an organization that gives a student a practical work experience |
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I/O Psychology |
A branch of Psychology that applies the principles of Psychology to workplace |
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Personnel Psychology |
A field of study that concentrates on the selection and evaluation of employees Includes analyzing jobs, recruitment, employee selection, salary determination, training and employee evaluation |
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Internship |
A situation in which a student works for an organization either for pay or as volunteer to receive a practical work experience |
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Terminal Master's Degree Program |
A graduate programs that offers a master's degree but not Ph.D. |
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Hypothesis |
An educated prediction about an answer |
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Graduate Record Exam (GRE) |
A standardized admission test required by most Psychology graduate schools |
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Hawthorne Effect |
Happens when employees change their behaviors, due solely to the fact that they are being observed or are receiving attention |
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Human Factors |
A field that concentrates on the interaction between a human and a machine |
Includes workplace design, human machine interaction, ergonomics, physical fatigue and stress |
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Organizational Psychology |
Investigates the behavior of the employees within the context of an organization |
Includes leadership, job satisfaction, employee motivation, Organizational communication, conflict management, Organizational change and group processes |
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Dissertation |
A formal research paper required of most doctoral students in order to graduate |
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Journals |
A written collection of articles describing the methods and results of new research |
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Theory |
A systematic sets of assumptions regarding the cause and nature of behavior |
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Field Research |
A research conducted in a natural settings as opposed to the laboratory |
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Hawthorne studies |
A series of studies conducted at the western electric plant in Hawthorne Illinois, that have come to represent any change in behavior when react to change in the environment |
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Army Beta |
An intelligence test developed during world war 2 used by army for soldiers who cannot read |
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Army Alpha |
An intelligence test developed during world war 2 used by the army for soldiers who can read |
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Experiment |
A type of research study in which the independent variable is manipulated by the experimenter |
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Cause and effect relationship |
The result of a well controlled experiment about which the researchers can confidently states that the independent variable caused the change to the dependent variables |
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Mean Effect Size |
A statistical that is the average of effect size for all the studies included in the analysis |
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Effect Size |
A statistical that indicates the amount of change caused by an experimental manipulation |
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Meta Analysis |
A statistical method of reaching conclusion based on previous research |
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Survey |
To ask people their opinion about some topics |
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Quasi Experiment |
Research methods in which the experimenter either manipulate the independent variable on which the subjects are not randomly assigned to conditions |
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Intervening Variable |
A third variable that can often explain the relationship between two variables |
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Archival Research |
Research that involves the use of previously collected data |
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Controlled group |
A group who do not receive any type of treatment so that they can be compared with that of groups who do not receive any treatment |
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Experimental group |
A group that receive the experimental treatment of interest to the experimenter |
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Dependent variable |
The measure of behavior that is expected to change as a result of changes in the independent variable |
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Independent variable |
The manipulated variable in the experiment |
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Manipulation |
The alteration of a variable by an experimenter in expectation that the alteration will result in a change in the dependent variable |
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Generalizability |
Other term for external validity |
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External validity |
The extent to which research result can be expected to hold true outside the specific settings in which they were obtained |
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Magazine |
An unscientific collection of articles about a wide range of topics |
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Trade Magazines |
A collection of articles for those "in the biz" about related professional topics seldom directly reporting the methods and results of new research |
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Correlation |
A statistical procedure used to measure the relationship between two variables |
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Debriefed |
Informing the subjects in an experiment about the purpose of the study |
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Random Assignment |
The random unbiased assignment of subjects in a research sample to the various experimental and controlled conditions |
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Practical Significance |
The result of the study have actual impact on human behavior |
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Informed Consent |
The formal process by which subjects are given permission to be included in the study |
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Convenience sample |
A non random research sample that is used because it is easily available |
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Type b dillema |
A rationalizing dilemma, know what is right but chooses what is advantageous |
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Type A dillema |
There is a high level of uncertainty as to what is right or wrong, there appears to be no best solution and there are both positive and negative consequences to a decision |
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Random sample |
Member of relevant population had an equal chance of being chosen to participate in the study |
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Difference Score |
A type of effect size used in meta Analysis that signified by the letter d and indicates how many standard deviation separate the mean score for the experimental group from the controlled group |
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Correlation coefficient |
A statistical resulting from performing a correlation that indicates the magnitude and direction of a relationship |
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