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| a subfield of pysch that examines the role of gentics in behavior |
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| research designed to compare and contrast people in dif cultures |
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| a system of enduring meanings, beliefs, values, assumptions, institutions, and practices shard by a large group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next |
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| subfield of psych the uses the principles of evolution to understand human social behavior |
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| interactionist perspective |
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| an emphasis on how both an individual's personality and environmental charecteristics influence behavior |
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| research designed to to examine racial and ethnic groups within cultures |
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| study of how people perceive, remember, and interpret information about themselves and others |
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| study of the relationship between nueral and social processes |
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| scientific study of how individuals think, feel, and behave in a social context |
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| research whose goals are to enlarge the understanding of naturally occuring events and to find the solutions to practical problems |
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| reaearch whose goal is to increase the understanding of human behavior, often by testing hypothesis based on a theory |
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| procedure in which research participants (falsely) led to believe that their responses will be verified by an infallibe lie detector |
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| accomplice of an experimenter who, in dealing with the real participants in an experiment , acts as if he or she is also a participant |
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| extent to which the measures used in a study measure the variables they were designed to measure and the manipulations in an experiment manipulate the variables they were designed to manipulate |
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| statistical measure of the strength and direction of the association between two variables |
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| research designed to measure the association between variables that are not manipulated by the researcher |
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| a disclosure given to a participant in an experiment where the researcher explains, and perhaps apologizes |
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| in the context of research, a method that provides false info to participants |
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| in an experiment, a factor that experimenters measure to see if it is affected by the independent variable |
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| form of research that can demonstrate casual relationships because (1) the experimenter has control over the events that occur, (2) participants are randomly assigned to conditions |
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| degree to which experimental procedures are involvign to participants and lead them to behave naturally and spontaneously |
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| experimenter expectancy effects |
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| effects produced when an experimenters expectations about the results of an experiment affect his/her behavior toward a participant and thereby influence the participants responses |
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| degree to which there can be reasonable confidence and the results of a study would be obtained for other people in situations |
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| in experiments, a factor that experimenters manipulate to see if it affects the depenent variable |
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| an individuals deliberate , voluntary consent to participate in research |
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| degree to which there can be reasonable certainty that the independent variables in an experiment caused the effects obtained on the dependent variables |
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| degree to which different observers agree on their observations |
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| set of statistical procedures used to review a body of evidence by combining the results of individual studies to measure the overall reliability and strength of particular effects |
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| degree to which the experimental situation resembles places and events in the real world |
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| specific procedures for manipulating or measuring a conceptual variable |
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| method of assigning participants to various conditions of an experiment so that each participant in the experiment has an equal chance of being in any of the conditions |
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| method of selecting participants for a study so that everyone in a population has an equal chance of being in the study |
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| a variable that characterizes pre-existing differences among the participants in a study |
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| an organized set of principles used to explain observed phenomona |
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