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Flashcards by Sarah Baldwin, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Sarah Baldwin
over 8 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| hindsight bias | the tendency to believe that after you learn an outcome, you would've foreseen it; "knew it all along" |
| overconfidence | the tendency to be sure of a fact but later find out that the reality was very different |
| scientific method | making a hypothesis, selecting a method for the study, control external variables, collect data, analyze, and report and document the results |
| hypothesis | a prediction or theory that has to be tested |
| operational definition | A statement of the procedures or ways in which a researcher is going to measure behaviors or qualities. |
| case study | one type of observational data collection technique in which one individual is studied in-depth in order to identify behavioral, emotional, and/or cognitive qualities that are universally true, on average, of others |
| survey | a method for collecting information or data as reported by individuals |
| naturalistic observation | the researcher allows behavior to occur without interference or intervention |
| correlation | a statistical index used to represent the strength of a relationship between two factors, how much and in what way those factors vary, and how well one factor can predict the other |
| correlation coefficent | a measure of the direction (positive or negative) and extent (range of a correlation coefficient is from -1 to +1) of the relationship between two sets of scores |
| scatter plot | Also known as scatter diagram or scatter graph, a scatterplot is a visual representation of the relationships or associations between two numerical variables |
| illusory correlation | when people believe there is some relationship between events, variables, etc., even though none really exists |
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