EPSY 1281 Group 2 Crossword
Across
- 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.
- 5. (Example) Ice cream sales go up when temperatures rise. One of them is the result of the other.
- 6. (Definition) Group of people taken out of a population to gather information on, and then make conclusions about.
- 9. (Definition) The group of people that the researchers want to gather information about.
- 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.
- 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
- 2. (Definition) When studying things that have already happened or are happening without interference. One can observe relationships between data this way.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 8. (Example) What pulling names out of a hat would be called.
- 11. (Example) What to call how long a participant sleeps. What researchers initially alter to affect data.
- 12. (Definition) Studies that have willingness to change with new evidence, a ruthless peer review, and take account of all new discoveries.
- 13. (Definition) Studies used when the researcher introduces variables on the participants in order to study the results of placing those variables.