Notes:Research Methods

• Survey-Most common; measures correlation;personal attitudes and opinions 
• Case Study-Studying the behavior of one individual
• Naturalistic observation-observing and recording behavior in normal situations without controlling anything 
• Experiment- manipulates factors to see the effect on it
• Independent variable- factor that is being manipulated; whats being study 
• Dependent variable-What is being measured 
• Random sample-represents a population
• Correlational  research -statistical measure between two factors;shows how they  effect each other
• Hypothesis-Prediction;theory
• Placebo-"i shall please"Substance/condition thats given instead of a presumed active agent;Given to see if its triggers the effect of characterize the active agent Ex: drugs
• Standard Deviation- calculating scores vary around the mean score
• Experimental group-control the variables
• Control groups-don't change nothing;serves to compare it to the experimentalking group