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| applied research | research that investigates issues that have implications for everyday life and provides solutions to everyday problems |
| basic research | research that answers fundamental questions about behaviour |
| conceptual variables | abstract ideas that form the basis of research hypotheses |
| deception | a situation that occurs whenever research participants are not completely and fully informed about the nature of the research project before participating in it |
| informed consent | a procedure, conducted before a participant begins a research session, designed to explain the research procedures and inform the participant of his or her rights during the investigation |
| institutional review board | a committee of at least five members whose goal it is to determine coast-benefit ratio of research conducted within an institution |
| debriefing | a procedure designed to fully explained the purposes and procedures of the research and remove any harmful aftereffects of participation |
| empirical | based on systematic collection and analysis of data |
| falsifiable | a characteristic of a theory or research hypothesis in which the variables of interest can be adequately measured and the predicted relationships among the variables can be shown through research to be incorrect |
| laws | principles that are so general as to apply to all situations in a given domain of inquiry |
| measured variables | variables consisting of numbers that represent the conceptual variables |
| objective | free from the personal bias or emotions of the scientist |
| operational definition | a precise statement of how a conceptual variable is turned into a measured variable |
| research hypothesis | a specific and falsifiable prediction about the relationship between or among two or more variables |
| scientific method | the set of assumption, rules, and procedures scientists use to conduct research |
| theory | an integrated set of principles that explains and predict many, but not all, observed relationships within a given domain of inquiry |
| variable | any attribute that can assume different values among different people or across different times or places |
