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| hindsight bias (i knew it all along phenomenon) |
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| the tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen it |
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| critical thinking (don't assume or U will look like an ASS) |
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| examine assumptions, find hidden value, evaluate evidence, assess conclusions, and always questioning. |
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| organizes and explains/predicts behaviors or events |
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| testable prediction, often about how two or more factors are related |
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| a statement of the procedures (operations) used to define research variables |
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| repeating the study with different participants in a different situation to see if the results are the same |
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| one person is studied in depth in the hope of revealing universal principles |
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| questioning a lot of people in less depth |
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| tendency to overestimate the extent to which others share our beliefs and behaviors |
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| whole group you want to study |
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| every person has an equal chance of being selected for a study |
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| observing and recording behavior of subject in naturally occurring situations |
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| correlation (IS NOT CAUSATION) |
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| a measure of two varying factors and how well either factor predicts the other; positive (smiley/+1.00) and negative (frowny/-1.00) |
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| part of experiment where people do not receive the treatment |
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| a graphed cluster of dots |
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| a perceived nonexistent correlation. EX: we believe blondes are dumb so we notice/recall when blondes do/say something that confirms this correlation |
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| a research method in which an investigator manipulates one or more factors to observe the effect on some behavior or mental process |
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| experimental procedure in which both researchers and participants don't know who gets the placebo and who gets the actual drug |
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| when people begin to have a positive reaction just from belief that they received the actual drug when in reality they received the placebo |
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| part of experiment where people receive the treatment |
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| assigning participants to experimental condition and control condition randomly (by chance) |
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| independent variable (IV-i control) |
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| the experimental factor that is manipulated |
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| dependent variable (DV-do not control) |
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| the outcome factor of an experiment |
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| the most frequently occurring score |
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| median (median in a highway is in the middle) |
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| mean (your mean teacher telling you you're average) |
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| the difference between the highest and lowest scores |
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| measure of how much scores vary around the mean score |
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| how likely it is that an obtained result occurred by chance |
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