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| The tendency to believe, after learning of an outcome, that one could have foreseen it. |
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| the positive or negative response to a drug that is caused by a person's expectations of a drug rather than the drug itself. |
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| Reasonable reflective thinking that is focused on deciding what to believe or do. |
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| an idea accounting for or justifying something. |
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| a supposition made on the basis of limited evidence as a starting point for further investigation. |
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| Multiple test trials under repeatablity (identical) conditions. |
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| The research is limited to one group, often with a similar characteristic or of small size. |
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| observe multiple people and their behaviors |
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| the tendency for people to project their way of thinking onto other people. |
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| A group of subjects randomly chosen from a defined population. |
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| you not only observe, but you record behaviors in the population in naturally occuring situations. |
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| When one behavior accompanies another, you must ask how closely two things vary and predict the other. |
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| sometimes we really believe there's a relationship between two things, we're likely to notice and recall instances that confirm our belief. |
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| The nature of conducting an experiment is simple. You manipulate one or more factors (independent variable) to observe the effect on certain behaviors and/or mental processes (dependent variable). |
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| both the research participants and staff are ignorant (blind) about whether they recieve the treatment or a placebo |
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| allows one version of the independent variable to be exposed to the participant. |
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| crontrasts with the experimental condition and serves as a comparison to evaluate the treatment. |
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| Assignment of subjects to different treatments, interventions, or conditions according to chance |
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| 2 groups are being compaired |
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| 2 or more groups are being compaired |
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| most frequently occuring score |
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| adding the scores and then dividing them by the number of scores. |
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| difference between the highest and lowest score |
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| To see if there are differences that are unlikely to have occured by chance and there isn't any evidence, we accept or fail to reject |
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| A measure of the variation in a distribution |
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| The probability that an event or difference occurred by chance alone. |
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| a variable or factor that influences the results of an experiment unintentionally. |
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