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Operational Definition

Unit 2 Myers' Psychology for AP* Vocabulary

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Author Joshua Blake Frye Unit 2: Research Methods Hindsight Bias ? the tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen it. (Also known as the I-knew-it-all-along phenomenon.) Critical Thinking ? thinking that does not blindly accept arguments and conclusions. Rather, it examines assumptions, discerns hidden values, evaluates evidence, and assesses conclusions. Theory ? an explanation using an integrated set of principles that organizes observations and predicts behaviors or events. Hypothesis ? a testable prediction, often implied by a theory. Operational Definition ? a statement of the procedures used to define research variables. For example, human intelligence may be operationally defined as what an intelligence test measures.
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