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what is hindsight bias & give an example
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tendency to over predict an outcome after knowing that it occured
e.g. able to see who would win the presidential election after knowing who does then we are able to make up reasons for why they did |
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name the three different types of methods used to study in psychology
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observational method, correlational method, and experimental method
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what is the diffusion of responsibility
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it is putting the responsibility on someone else example the lady being murdered and several neighbors heard her scream for help but no one had called the police b/c they thought someone else had
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oservational method
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the method whereas the researcher observes the people & records impressions used to describe a situation
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interjudge reliability
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level of two or more people who independately observe and code a set of data; by showing that two or more judges independently come up with the same observations
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Correlational method
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the technique whereaby two or more vaiables are systematically measured and the relationship between them
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correlation coeffiencient
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how well you can predict one variable form another
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surveys
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research in which a representative sample of people are asked questions about their attitudes or behaviors
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random selection
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way of ensuring that a sample of people is representative of a population by giving everyone in the population an equal chance of being selected for the sample
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experimental method
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the method in which the researcher randomly assigns participants to different conditions and ensures that these conditions are identical
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internal validity vs external validity
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internal validity is making sure that nothing else besides the indepedant vairable can affect the dependent value
external validity is the results of a study can be generalized to other situations and to other people |
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cover story
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a description given to the participants that is different from its true purpose used to maintain psychological realism
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field experiments
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researchers study behaviors outside of the laboratory in its natual setting
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meta analysis
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a stastical technique that averages the results of two or more studies to see if the effefct of an independent variable is relaible
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appled research
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studies designed to solve a particular social problem
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what is natural selection
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traits that promote survival in a particualr environemnt are passed along to future generations because organisms withthat trait are more likely to produce offspring
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