AP Psychology Research Review

You must ____ an experiment to show if your basic findings can be reproduced making them likely to be accurate.

When you see a relationship where none exists. Ex: you win the lotto on your birthday so you buy a lotto ticket each year on your birthday.

This is why you should play one hole of golf against a PGA Tour golfer rather than 9 holes.

This is the extent to which 2 factors vary together ex: more tooth brushing = less cavities.

This fairly represents a population because each member has an equal chance of inclusion.

This is a graphed cluster of dots, each of which represents the value of 2 variables. would be used in a correlational study.

A perfect negative correlation is a -1, a perfect positive is a +1, and no correlation is a 0

The "I-knew-it-all-along" phenomenon.

This is a descriptive technique of observing and recording behavior in a naturally occurring situation without manipulating the situation.

This is a descriptive technique in which one individual or group is studied in depth.