Introductory Psych Vocab Crossword

the behavior or mental process that is being answered
achieved when every member of the population has an equal chance of being selected for the sample, when every member is selected randomly
the factor the researcher manipulates
the imitation pill, injection, patch, or other treatment
differences between the experimental group and the control group other than those resulting for the independent variable
the specific procedure used to determine the presence of a variable
a research design in which the participants do not 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
a graph in which paired X and Y scores for each subject are plotted as single points, illustrating the strength and directions graphically
provides a way of statistically combing the results of individual research studies to reach an overall conclusion
a measure of the likelihood that the difference between group results from a real difference between the two groups rather than from chance alone