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| What are the two things we "throw out the window" this chapter? |
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| Tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have forseen it |
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| The tendency to overestimate our intuition is known as what? |
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| What are the three types of research methods? |
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| Descriptive, Correlational, Experimental |
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| A case study is used to examine a group of how many people? (Small or Large) |
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| Why are researchers hesitant to use surveys for their experiment? |
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| Many people do not answer honestly |
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| The strongest correlation relationship is when it is +- what number? |
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| Two groups study the same material, one while listening to music and another without music. The independent variable is |
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| A correlational study determines what type of relationship? |
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| Relationship between 2 events |
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| A "Rage for Order" can best be explained through what correlation? |
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| Subjects expectations can can lead them to experience a change even though they receive a fake, ineffective treatment. This is known as what? |
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| What type of variable depends on what takes place during the experiment? |
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| What is the control group in an experiment? |
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| The variable that does not recieve treatment in the experiment |
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| An educated guess about what is controlling some behavior is known as what? |
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| If you're trying to establish a casual relationship between a reinforcer and increased performance, what type of method should you use? |
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| An observation that the higher the temperature, the lower the activity of the animals. This shows what type of correlation? |
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| A representative sample is an essential element of what method? |
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| What is a single blind procedure? |
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| The experimenter is aware but the subject is unaware of the research condition. |
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| A simple experiment has two groups of subjects. What are they? |
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| Control group and experimental group |
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| If an experiment is given and neither the experimenter or the subject are aware of the research condition this is known as what? |
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| Double Blind procedure eliminates what? |
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| A set of exact procedures that represent particular variables are known as what? |
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| Students who do better in high school tend to do better in college. This is an example of what type of correlation? |
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| Sally did an experiment and took every 15th person that signed up. This unplanned process is known as what? |
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| What are the three central tendencies? (3 M's) |
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| What is naturalistic observation? |
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| Recording behavior in natural environments |
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| An experiment is more reliable if it is repeated. True or False? |
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| What is standard deviation? |
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| A measure of variance that describes an average distance of every score from the mean |
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| The definition of meta-analysis is a statistical procedure for combining the results of different studies that examine different topics. True or False? |
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| False: They examine the same topic |
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| Our inner wisdom to trust, or our "force within", is known as what? |
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