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unit 0 psych
unit 0 psych-scientific thinking, attitude, and developing arguments
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Empirical approach | evidence based method drawing an observation and experimentation |
| hindsight bias | tendency to believe after learning outcome that one would've foreseen it |
| overconfidence | human tendency to think we know more than we do |
| correlation coefficient | a statistical index of the relationship between two variables (-1 to 1) |
| positive correlation | variables move in the same direction |
| negative correlation | variables move in inverse directions |
| quantitative research | research method relying on quantifiable numerical data |
| qualitative research | a method relying on in depth narrative data that aren't translated into numbers |