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| 10797484285 | hindsight bias | The tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen it |  | 0 |
| 10797879275 | What does Naturalistic Observation aim for? | To describe behavior rather than try to explain it | 1 | |
| 10797484286 | critical thinking | examines assumptions, discerns hidden values, evaluates evidence, and assesses conclusions | 2 | |
| 10797879276 | Naturalistic Observation | Observing/recording behavior in real-world settings without trying to manipulate or control the situation | 3 | |
| 10797484287 | validity | the extent to which a test or experiment measures or predicts what it is supposed to do | 4 | |
| 10797484288 | theory | A hypothesis that has been tested with a significant amount of data | 5 | |
| 10797484289 | hypothesis | A testable prediction, often implied by a theory | 6 | |
| 10797484290 | operational definition | A statement of the procedures used to define research variables that is specific and allows research to be replicated | 7 | |
| 10797484292 | case study | An observation technique in which one person is studied in depth in the hope of revealing universal principles | 8 | |
| 10797484293 | survey | A study, generally in the form of an interview or questionnaire, that provides researchers with information about how people think and act | 9 | |
| 10797484294 | population | the whole group that you want to study and describe | 10 | |
| 10797484295 | random sample | A sample that fairly represents a population because each member has an equal chance of inclusion | 11 | |
| 10797484296 | correlation | A measure of the relationship between two variables | 12 | |
| 10797484297 | correlation coefficient | A statistical index of the relationship between two things (from -1 to +1) | 13 | |
| 10797484298 | scatterplot | A graphed cluster of dots, each of which represents the values of two variables | 14 | |
| 10797484299 | illusory correlation | The perception of a relationship where none exists | 15 | |
| 10797484300 | experiment | A research method in which an investigator manipulates one or more factors to observe the effect on some behavior or mental process | 16 | |
| 10797484301 | random assignment | Assigning participants to experimental and control conditions by chance, thus minimizing preexisting differences between those assigned to the different groups(how you assign them) | 17 | |
| 10797484302 | double-blind study | An experiment in which neither the participant nor the researcher knows whether the participant has received the treatment or the placebo | 18 | |
| 10797484303 | placebo effect | improvement resulting from the mere expectation of improvement | 19 | |
| 10797484304 | experimental group | A subject or group of subjects in an experiment that is exposed to the factor or condition being tested | 20 | |
| 10797484305 | control group | The group that does not receive the experimental treatment | 21 | |
| 10797484306 | independent variable | A variable whose values are independent of changes in the values of other variables | 22 | |
| 10797484307 | confounding variable | A factor other than the independent variable that might produce an effect in an experiment | 23 | |
| 10797484308 | dependent varibale | The variable that is observed and that changes in response to the independent variable, the thing you are measuring | 24 | |
| 10797484309 | mode | Most frequently occurring score | 25 | |
| 10797484310 | mean | Average | 26 | |
| 10797484311 | median | Middle number | 27 | |
| 10797484312 | range | Distance between highest and lowest scores in a set of data | 28 | |
| 10797484313 | standard deviation | A computed measure of how much scores vary around the mean score | 29 | |
| 10797484314 | normal curve | The symmetrical bell-shaped curve that describes the distribution of many physical and psychological attributes | 30 | |
| 10797484315 | statistical significance | A statistical statement of how likely it is that an obtained result occurred by chance | 31 | |
| 10797484316 | culture | Beliefs, customs, and traditions of a specific group of people | 32 | |
| 10797484317 | informed consent | An ethical principle requiring that research participants be told enough to enable them to choose whether they wish to participate | 33 | |
| 10797484318 | debriefing | A verbal description of the true nature and purpose of a study AFTER the study is over | 34 | |
| 10797484319 | sample | A part of the population you are studying | 35 | |
| 10797484322 | 3 main components of scientific attitude | curiosity skepticism humility | 36 | |
| 10797484323 | disadvantage of a case study | overgeneralization, suggests that the results could be for everyone but more research is needed to back it up | 37 | |
| 10797484324 | a theory is useful if? | it effectively organizes a range of self-reports/observations and leads to a clear hypothesis that anyone can use and stimulates research to lead to a revised theory that better organizes and predicts what we know | 38 | |
| 10797484326 | positive correlation | two variable rise and fall together |  | 39 |
| 10797484327 | negative correlation | variables are related inversely, one goes up and the other goes down |  | 40 |
| 10797484328 | 1 standard deviation | 68% | 41 | |
| 10797484329 | deception | investigators providing false or incomplete information to participants for the purpose of misleading research subjects | 42 | |
| 10797484330 | descriptive statistics | numerical data used to measure and describe characteristics of groups, including measures of central tendency and variation | 43 | |
| 10797484332 | skewed graph | mode, median, and mean are different |  | 44 |
| 10797484333 | positive skew | high outlier |  | 45 |
| 10797484334 | negative skew | low outlier |  | 46 |
| 10797484335 | measures of variability | depict diversity of the distribution (range, standard deviation) | 47 | |
| 10797484344 | normal curve |  | 48 | |
| 10797484337 | 3 principles of being reliable | representative samples are better than biased less variable observations are more reliable than those that are more variable more cases are better than fewer | 49 | |
| 10797879277 | inferential statistics | to infer from sample data the probability of something being true of a population | 50 | |
| 10797484339 | statistically significant | how likely it is that an obtained result occurred by chance | 51 | |
| 10797484340 | culture (behavior) | enduring behaviors ideas, attitudes, and how people perceive different situations, such as body shape, early sex, etc | 52 | |
| 10797879278 | Overconfidence | Tendency to overestimate our ability to make correct predictions | 53 | |
| 10797879279 | What is causation? | The relationship between cause and effect | 54 | |
| 10797879280 | 2 standard deviation | 95% | 55 | |
| 10797879281 | 3 standard deviation | 99.7% | 56 | |
| 10880570331 | What is empirical method? | A process that depends on direct observation of nature and experimentation | 57 | |
| 10880570332 | What is the measure of central tendency | mean | 58 |
