chapter 1 and 2 vocab
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Psychology [1]
Marlude Pierre-Louis 02-10-2011 Block 3 WORDS DEFINITION CHAPTER 1 1 - hindsight bias The tendency people have to view events as more predictable than they really are. For example, after an event, people often believe that they knew the outcome of the event before it actually happened. 2 - critical thinking The mental process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and evaluating information to reach an answer or conclusion 3 - theory A set of hypotheses related by logical or mathematical arguments to explain and predict a wide variety of connected phenomena in general terms 4 - hypothesis A mere assumption?or guess 5 - operational definition