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prefrontal lobotomy |
surgery that severs fibers connecting the frontal lobes of the brain from the underlying thalamus |
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heuristic |
mental shortcut or rule of thumb that helps us to streamline our thinking and make sense of our world |
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naturalistic observation |
watching behavior in real world settings without manipulating variables (high external validity, low internal validity) |
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case studies |
examines one person, or a few cases. (helps with rare stuff, but doesn't allow inference of causation) |
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correlational designs |
(predict, but not causality) |
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experimental designs |
can infer causality, high internal validity, low external validity |
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existence proof |
demo that a given psychological phenomenon can occur |
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response set |
tendency of research participants to distort their responses to questionnaire items |
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the halo effect |
perception of attractive individuals having many other desirable attributes |
