intro psychology vocab words Crossword

the behavior or mental process that is being measured, the factor that may change as a result of manipulation of the independent variable
can be achieved by putting all the names in a hat and picking out a specific number of names, by alphabetizing the roster of enrollees and choosing every fifth name, or by using a table of random numbers to choose participants
The factor the researchers manipulate
The imitation pill, injection, patch, or other treatment
Differences between the experimental group and the control group other than those resulting from the independent variable
describes the specific procedure used to determine the presence of a variable
a research design in which the participants don’t know which treatment group—experimental or control—they are in
The clues participants discover about the purpose of the study, including rumors they hear about the study suggesting how they should respond
consistency or repeatability
the extent to which an instrument measures or predicts what it is supposed to
indicate the degree to which scores differ from each other and vary around the mean value for the set
The strength and direction of correlations can be illustrated graphically in this type of graph
provides a way of statistically combining the results of individual research studies to reach an overall conclusion
a measure of the likelihood that the difference between groups results from a real difference between the two groups rather than from chance alone