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Empiricism
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Any attempt to acquire knowledge by observing objects or events
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Operational Definition
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A description of an abstract property in terms of a concrete condition that can be measure
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Group assignment
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reason why we can say what things cause other things to happen
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Demand Characteristics
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Those aspects of an observatioinal setting that cause people to behave as they think an observer wants or expects them to behave
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Third-Variable Correlation
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The fact that two variables may be correlated only because they are both caused by a third variable
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debriefing
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a verbal description of the true nature and purpose of a study that psychologists provide to people after they have participated in the study
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external validity
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A characteristic of an experiment in which the independent and dependent variables are operationally defined in a normal, typical, or realistic way
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internal validity
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the characteristic of an experiment that allows one to draw accurate inferences about the causal relationship between an independent and dependent variable
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demand characteristics
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cues that tell participants what is expected of them and what the expeimenter hopes to find
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Hawthorne Effect
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Observation of a behavior changes behavior
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Selective Attrition
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certain people who start study and leave may be different from the people who stay and are there for the end
ex. College freshmen who switch majors |
