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Flashcards by acchadwick, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by acchadwick
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| Question | Answer |
| Hindsight Bias | The tendency to believe, after an event has already occurred, that you could've predicted it. |
| Overconfidence | the tendency to be very sure of a fact and later finding that the objective reality was different. |
| Scientific Method | The standardized way of making observations |
| Hypothesis | A tentative and testable explanation of the relationship between two or more events or variables |
| Operational Definition | a result of the process of operationalization and is used to define something |
| Case Study | Research technique in which one person is studied in depth in hopes of revealing universal principles |
| Survey | Descriptive method; Uses questionnaires or interviews |
| Naturalistic Observation | Observations and recordings of behavior in naturally occurring situations w/o trying to manipulate and control the situation |
| Correlation | Researchers observe or measure a relationship between variables. |
| Correlation Coefficient | A number value that indicates the strength and direction of the relationship between variables. |
| Scatterplot | A visual representation of the relationships or associations between two numerical variables |
| Illusory Correlation | Belief there is some relationship between events, variables, etc., even though none really exists. |
| Central Tendency | Describes average of a distribution. |
| Confounding Variables | Factors that cause differences between the experimental group and the control group other than the independent variable. |
| Descriptive Statistics | Numbers that summarize a set of research data from a sample |
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