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Serial position effect |
Not having a middle |
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Critical thinking |
Refers to a more careful style of forming and evaluating knowledge that simply using intuition. |
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Hindsight bias |
"I knew it all along" |
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Overconfidence error |
"I am sure I am correct" |
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Bias |
We are (biased) in favor of old information. |
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Perceiving order in random events |
Helps us make predictions |
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Curiosity |
Always asking new questions |
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Skepticism |
Not accepting a (fact) as true without challenging it |
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Humility |
Seeking the truth rather than trying to be right |
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Hypothesis |
Is a testable prediction consistent with our theory |
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Case study |
Observing and gathering information to compile an in-depth study of one individual |
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Naturalistic Observation |
Gathering data about behavior watching but not intervening |
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Surveys and interviews |
Saving other people report on their own attitude and behavior |
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Observing "natural behavior " |
Means just watching (and taking notes) and not trying to change anything. |
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Survey |
A method of gathering information about many people's thoughts or behaviors through self-report rather than observation |
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Random sampling |
Is a technique for making sure that every individual in a population has an equal chance of being in your sample |
Random means that your selection of participants is driven only by chance not by any characteristics |
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Correlation |
General definition: an a observation that two traits or attributes are related to each other (thus, they are "co"-related |
Scientific definition: a measure of how closely two factors vary together or (go well you can predict a change in one from observing a change in the other. |
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The correlation coefficient |
Is a number representing the strength and direction of correlation |
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The strenght |
Of the relationship refers to how close the dots are to a straight line, which means one variable change exactly as the other one doe, this numbers varies from 0.00 to +\- 1.00 |
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The direction of the correlation |
Can be positive (both variable increase together) or negative (as one goes up, the other goes down) |
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Perfect positive correlation |
Back (Definition) |
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Perfect negative correlation |
Back (Definition) |
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No relationship no correlation |
Back (Definition) |
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Experimentation |
Manipulating one factor in a situation to determine its effects |
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Random sampling |
Is how you get a pool of research participants that represents the population you're trying to learn about. |
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Random assignment |
Of participants to control or experimental group is how you control all variables except the one you're manipulating |
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Placebo effect |
Experimental effects that are caused by expectations about the intervention |
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Independent variable IV |
The variable we are able to manipulate independently of what the other variable are doing is called independent variable |
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Dependent variable DV |
The variable we expect to experience a change which depends on the manipulation we're doing is called the dependent variable DV |
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Confounding Variable |
The other variable that might have an effect on the dependent variable |
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