Myers 7th Edition - Chapter 01 Vocabulary
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| show | The tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen it. Also known as the I-knew-it-all-along phenomenon.
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| Critical Thinking | show 🗑
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| show | An explanation using an integrated set of principles that organizes and predicts observations.
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| show | A testable prediction, often implied by a theory.
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| show | A statement of the procedures (operations) used to define research variables. For example, intelligence may be operationally defined as what an intelligence test measures.
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| show | A technique for ascertaining the self-reported attitudes or behaviors of people, usually by questioning a representative, random sample of them.
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| show | All the cases in a group, from which samples may be drawn for a study. (Note: except national studies, this does not refer to a country's whole population.)
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| show | A sample that fairly represents a population because each member has an equal chance of inclusion.
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| show | Observing and recording behavior in naturally occurring situations without trying to manipulate and control the situation.
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| Correlation coefficient | show 🗑
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| show | A graphed cluster of dots, each of which represents the values of two variables. The slope of the points suggests the direction of the relationship between the two variables. The amount of scatter suggests the strength of the correlation.
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| show | The perception of a relationship where none exists.
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| show | A research method in which an investigator manipulates one or more factors (independent vairables) to observe the effect on some behavior or mental process (the dependent variable) by the random assignment of participants.
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| show | An experimental procedure in which both the research participants and the research staff are "blind" about whether the research participants have received the treatment or a placebo. Commonly used in drug-evaluation studies.
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| show | The condition of an experiment that contrasts with the experimental condition and serves as a comparison for evaluating the effect of the treatment.
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| show | The arithmetic average of a distribution, obtained by adding the scores and then dividing by the number of scores.
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| show | The middle score in a distribution; half the scores are above it and half are below it.
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| show | A statistical statement of how likely it is that an obtained result occurred by chance.
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