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| Shared ideas and behaviors passes from one generation to the next. |
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| The middle score in a distribution. |
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| Experimental results caused by expectations alone. |
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| "I-knew-it-all-along" phenomenon. |
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| The most frequently ocurring score. |
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| The difference between the highest and lowest scores. |
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| A measure of variation based on every score. |
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| A graphed cluster of dots depicting the values of two variables. |
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| The arithmetic average of a set of scores. |
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| Measures of Central Tendency |
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| The mean, median, and mode. |
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| The range and standard deviation. |
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| Reasoning that does not blindly accept arguments. |
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| False perception of a relationship between two variable. |
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| An explanation using an integrated set of principles that organizes observations and predicts behaviors or events. |
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| The variable being manipulated in an experiment. |
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| The variable being measured in an experiment. |
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| The "treatment-present" group in an experiment. |
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| The "Treatment-absent" group in an experiment. |
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| An in-depth observational study of one person. |
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| The research strategy in which a representative sample of individuals is questioned. |
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| Repeating an experiment to see whether the same results are obtained. |
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| The process in which research participants are selected by chance for different groups in an experiment. |
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| The research strategy in which the effects of one or more variables on behavior are tested. |
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| Experimental procedure in which niether the research participant nor the experimenter knows which condition the participant is in |
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