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| 6910584 | hindsight bias | the tendency to think that they knew it all along | |
| 6910585 | applied research | research in order to solve practical problems | |
| 6910586 | basic research | of interest to psychologists but not intended to have immediate, real-world applications | |
| 6910587 | valid | measures what the researcher set out to measure | |
| 6910588 | reliable | can be replicated | |
| 6910589 | random selection | every member of the population has an equal chance of being selected | |
| 6910590 | stratified sampling | a process that allows a researcher to ensure that the sample represents the population on some criteria | |
| 6910591 | confounding variable | any difference between the experimental and control condition | |
| 6910592 | experimenter bias | the unconscious tendency for researchers to treat members of the experimental and control groups differently to increase the chance of confirming their hypothesis | |
| 6910593 | double-blind procedure | neither the participants nor the researcher are able to affect the outcome of the research | |
| 6910594 | demand characteristics | cues about the purpose of the study | |
| 6910595 | response or subject bias | the tendency for subjects to behave in certain ways | |
| 6910596 | social desirability | the tendency to try to give politically correct answer | |
| 6910597 | hawthorne effect | merely selecting a group of people on whom to experiment affect the performance of that group | |
| 6910598 | descriptive statistics | simply describe a set of data | |
| 6910599 | correlation coefficient | the strength of a correlation | |
| 6910600 | inferential statistics | to determine whether or not findings can be applied to the larger population |
