EPSY 1281 Group 2 Crossword

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Across
  1. 1. (Example) Things like flat Earth theory or cocaine curing Covid-19. They are fixed ideas that lack peer review and select only favorable outcomes.
  2. 5. (Example) Ice cream sales go up when temperatures rise. One of them is the result of the other.
  3. 6. (Definition) Group of people taken out of a population to gather information on, and then make conclusions about.
  4. 9. (Definition) The group of people that the researchers want to gather information about.
  5. 10. (Example) What to call how many hours the participants studied outside of class when the study focused on the connection between hours slept and test results.
  6. 14. (Definition) When the population is divided into strata (groups) based on a similar characteristic between them. Then a certain amount is taken from each group through SRS to get the full sample. This makes the sample more equally diverse.
Down
  1. 2. (Definition) When studying things that have already happened or are happening without interference. One can observe relationships between data this way.
  2. 3. (Definition) Studies that actively observe relationships based on a variable, but that variable is not controlled through random assignment. This is used when studying something that can not be manipulated like married versus single people.
  3. 4. (Example) What the connection between ice cream sales and sunglasses sales both going up in Summer is called. They both go up at the same time without directly influencing each other.
  4. 7. (Example) What to call how well the participants do on a test after sleeping X hours. What researchers look at during and/or after the study to see results.
  5. 8. (Example) What pulling names out of a hat would be called.
  6. 11. (Example) What to call how long a participant sleeps. What researchers initially alter to affect data.
  7. 12. (Definition) Studies that have willingness to change with new evidence, a ruthless peer review, and take account of all new discoveries.
  8. 13. (Definition) Studies used when the researcher introduces variables on the participants in order to study the results of placing those variables.