AP Psych confusing pairs

Historical perspective of psych that focused on how behaviors help us to adapt to our environment.

• structuralism

• functionalism

When designing an experiment, one way to avoid bias is to make sure all people in the sample to be studied have an equal opportunity to be placed in the experimental group.

• random assignment

• random sampling

Procedure used to avoid bias in a survey result by making sure all members of the population of interest have an equal opportunity to be chosen for the survey.

• random assignment

• random sampling

The variable in an experiment that is manipulated/changed by the researcher.

• independent variable

• dependent variable

The variable in an experiment that the researcher observes/measures for change.

• independent variable

• dependent variable

Group in an experiment that IS exposed to/receives the Independent Variable

• control group/control condition

• experimental group/experimental condition

Group in an experiment that DOES NOT receive the independent variable

• control group

• experimental group

The only research method which can determine if there is a cause and effect relationship between two variables.

• experiment

• correlation study

Research methodology that is used to find if there is a predictive relationship between 2 variables/factors, but does not necessarily signal a cause and effect relationship between the two.

• correlation

• experiment

Branch of the nervous system that returns our body to homeostasis after the fight-or-flight response slowing respiration, heart rate, and returning blood flow to digestion...Rest and Digest

• sympathetic

• parasympathetic