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Flashcards by Brandon Lambert, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Brandon Lambert
about 8 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Hindsight Bias | The tendency to believe, once the outcome is already known of course, that you would have forseen it |
| Overconfidence | The tendency to be very sure of a fact and later finding that the objective reality was different |
| Scientific Method | Systematic, step-by-step procedure psychologists use when conducting research. |
| Hypothesis | A testable prediction about the relationship between at least two events, characteristics, or variables |
| Operational Definitions aka Operation 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 survey is a method for collecting information or data as reported by individuals. |
| Naturalistic Observation | techniques to collect data about behavior that occurs without interference or intervention at all |
| Correlation | A statistical index used to represent the strength of a relationship between two factors |
| Correlation Coefficant | measure of the direction (positive or negative) and extent of the relationship between two sets of scores. |
| Scatterplot | A scatterplot is a visual representation of the relationships or associations between two numerical variables |
| Illusory Correlation | Sometimes people believe there is some relationship between events, variables, etc., even though none really exists Ex: All Lawyers are liars |
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