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| 7484189019 | Hindsight Bias | Finding that something has happened made it seem inevitable afterward. In hindsight i shouldn't have dropped that class. | 0 | |
| 7484192125 | Hypothesis | A good theory that produces testable resulte. I hypothesize that bananas are bigger than apples. | 1 | |
| 7484199845 | Theory | Explains through an integrated set of principles that organizes observations and predicts behaviors or events. My theory is that at the heart of depression lies low self-esteem | 2 | |
| 7484206418 | Survey | A method of studying behavior that looks at cases in less depth. It ask people to report their behaviors or opinions. I took a survey to see how many people like pizza. | 3 | |
| 7484210851 | Random Sample | A sample in which every person in the entire group has an equal chance of participating. I took a random sample of high school kids. | 4 | |
| 7484215397 | Natural Observation | Records behavior in natural environments. The phycologist used Natural observation to observe the chimpanzees. | 5 | |
| 7484218293 | Correlation | When one trait or behavior is related to another. Ag correlates with hair loss | 6 | |
| 7484222044 | Illusory correlation | A perceived nonexistent correlation. The correlation between infertile couples who adopt, and their being better able to conceive is illusory | 7 | |
| 7484226151 | Random assignment | A technique used for assigning participant in a experiment to different groups. I randomly assigned infants to different feeding groups. | 8 | |
| 7484231844 | Double Blind | When neither the participants nor the research assistants collecting the data will know which group is receiving what treatment. The experiment was double blind and even i didn't know who was receiving what. | 9 | |
| 7484237634 | Placebo | When you think a peel is responsible for healing you but its really just fake made up of sugar. The diet peel was a placebo | 10 | |
| 7484240673 | Independent variable | A factor that can vary independently of other factor. Time is always an independent variable. | 11 | |
| 7484242865 | Dependent Variable | Varies depending on what takes place during a experiment. How done the cookies get depends on how long they are in the stove, | 12 | |
| 7484246912 | Standard Deviation | A standard for measuring how much scores deviate from one another. The correlation between the two experiments is 1. | 13 | |
| 7484252261 | Mode | The most frequent occurring score. The mode of the set is four. |  | 14 |
| 7484255116 | Mean | The sum total of scores divided by the number of score. The mean of the sum of one hundred made up by four numbers is twenty five. | 15 | |
| 7484262090 | The Median | The midpoint of the data when you arrange scores from highs to lowest. Half will be above the median and half will be below. The median of the numbers 1-5 is 3. | 16 | |
| 7484270726 | Range | The gap between the lowest and highest scores. The range is from 1-5. | 17 | |
| 7484273803 | Normal Curve | When most cases fall near the mean, and fewer case fall near either extreme. A bell shaped distribution that is so common its called the normal curve. The experiment on heigh resulted in a bell curve. | 18 | |
| 7484281780 | Population | The whole group you want to study and describe. The population of America is mostly caucasian. | 19 | |
| 7484284889 | Psychology | The science of behavior and the mind Phycologist must study psychology in order to understand the human brain. | 20 | |
| 7484293814 | Psychiatry | A medical field that is specifically devoted to the diagnosis, prevention, study, and treatment of mental disorders. I used psychiatry to diagnose his disorder. | 21 | |
| 7484300342 | Basic Research | One of the two main types of research, pure research that aims to confirm an existing theory or to learn more about a concept or phenomenon. I used basic research to confirm my theory. | 22 | |
| 7484302299 | Applied Research | One of the two main types of research, conducted specifically to solve practical problems .It accesses and uses some part of the research communities' (the academia's) accumulated theories, knowledge, methods, and techniques. I used applied reattach to diagnose a case with a special client who i had no idea how to treat. | 23 | |
| 7484325257 | Natural Selection | Natural selection is the differential survival and reproduction of individuals due to differences in phenotype. It is a key mechanism of evolution, the change in heritable traits of a population over time. Natural selection might lead to humans having bigger head in the future to protect are brains. | 24 |
