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demand characteristics

social desirability

 

Hawthorne Effect

 

skepticism

 

Robert Rosenthal and Kermit Fode

 

observer bias

 

double-blind study

 

property

 

measure

 

operational definition

 

construct validity

 

predictive validity

 

case study

 

survey

 

reporting bias

 

population

 

sample

 

stratified sampling

 

random sampling

 

opportunity sample

 

representative sample

 

illusory correlation

 

confirmation bias

 

correlation

 

scatterplot

 

correlational coefficient

 

third variable

 

matched sample

 

matched pair

 

illusory correlation

 

theory

 

hypothesis

 

experiment

 

manipulation

 

independent variable

 

dependent variable

 

placebo effect

 

random assignment / random allocation

 

self-selection

 

confounding variable

 

controls

 

descriptive statistics

 

central tendency

 

mean

 

median

 

mode

 

variance

 

range

 

standard deviation

 

normal curve

 

frequency distribution

 

inferential statistics

 

statistical significance

 

p-value

 

effect size

 

internal validity

 

replication

 

external validity / ecological validity

 

artificiality

 

informed consent

 

debriefing

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