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Psychology Terms
Terms I got wrong on practice test
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Cued Recall | Studying word pairs in association to one another, so when you see the first word you associate it with the second word |
| Testing Effect | Phenomenon in which testing yourself can help the memory go into Long-Term Processing |
| Double Blind | The subjects AND the experimenter have no clue which group has which independent variable |
| Hindsight Bias | We feel that we knew the correct answer along and an outcome appears to be common sense |
| Overconfidence | An individual's subjective belief in their own performance is greater than the actual accuracy of that performance |
| Semantic Encoding | Thinking about the definition of a word to better remember it |
| Random Assignment | Placing subjects randomly into either the control or experimental conditions; necessary to conduct a controlled experiment. |
| Regression to the Mean | Occurs as more data is collected. Small sample sizes may yield a mean that is skewed, but the more data that is collected, the mean of the data set typically moves closer to the mean. |