Ch 2 Research methods (p. 63-96)
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| prefrontal lobotomy | show 🗑
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| show | Mental shortcuts that help us to streamline our thinking and make sense of our world.
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| Representativeness heuristic | show 🗑
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| show | how common a characteristic or behavior is in the general population.
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| show | estimating the liklihood of an event by the ease at chich it comes to our minds
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| show | systematic errors in thinking
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| show | tendency to overestimate how well we could have successfully forecasted known outcomes
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| show | tendency to overestimate our ability to make correct predictions.
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| show | watching behavior in real-world settings
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| show | extent to which we can generalize findings to real world settings
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| naturalistic observation advantages | show 🗑
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| show | low degree of internal validity, which is the extent to which we can draw cause&effect inferences.
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| internal validity | show 🗑
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| case study | show 🗑
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| show | demonstrations that a given psychological phonomenon can occur.
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| show | helpful in existence proofs, can study rare phonomena
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| show | depth is traded for breadth, low external validity (can be misleading and anecdotal)
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| show | research design that determines the extent to which two variables are associated
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| correlational meanings (r=) | show 🗑
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| show | grouping of points on a 2d graph in which each dot represents a singer person's data
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| illusory correlation | show 🗑
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| Experimental research design | show 🗑
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| random ASSIGNMENT | show 🗑
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| show | group that recieves the manipulation
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| show | group that doesn't recieve manipulation
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| independent variable | show 🗑
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| show | variable that experimenter measures to see whether the manipulation has an effect
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| confound | show 🗑
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| Experiment & Causation Vs. Correlation | show 🗑
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| show | investigation of the consistency of patterns of results across large numbers of studies from different laboratories
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| show | tendency for negative findings not to be published
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| placebo effect | show 🗑
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| show | harm from expectation of harm
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| blind | show 🗑
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| show | phonomenon in which researchers' hypothesis lead them to unintentionally bias a study outcome
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| show | neither experimenters nor participants know which group is control / experimental
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| show | participants knowledge that they're being studied affects their behavior
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| random SELECTION | show 🗑
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| demand characteristics | show 🗑
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| reliability | show 🗑
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| show | extent to which a measure assesses what it claims to measure
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| reliability vs validity | show 🗑
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| show | surveys, questionaires
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| advantages of self report measures | show 🗑
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| disadvantages | show 🗑
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| response sets | show 🗑
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| halo effect | show 🗑
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| show | opposite of halo effect
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| show | tendency of raters to provide ratings that are overly generous
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| show | an unwillingness to provide extreme ratings
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| show | 1. review by an institutional review board 2. informed consent 3. justification of deception 4. debreifing
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| show | 1. use whenever humans cant be used. 2. any pain must be justified by expected benefits of human welfare
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| show | informing research participants of what is involved in a study before asking them to participate
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| show | application of mathematics to describing and analyzing data
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| descriptive statistics | show 🗑
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| show | measure of the "central" scores in a data set, or where the group tends to cluster
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| show | average; a measure of central tendency
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| show | middle score in a data set, a measure of central tendency
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| mode | show 🗑
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| dispersion | show 🗑
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| range | show 🗑
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| show | a measure of dispersion that takes into account how far each data point is from the mean
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| inferential statistics | show 🗑
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