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Psychology Ch.2

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prefrontal lobotomy   show
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heuristic   show
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show heuristic that involves judging the probability of an event by its superficial similarity to a prototype  
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show how common a characteristic or behavior is in the general population  
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show heuristic that involves estimating the likeliness of an occurrence based on the ease with which 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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overconfidence   show
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naturalistic observation   show
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external validity   show
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internal validity   show
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show research design that examines one person or a small number of people in depth, often over an extended time period  
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show demonstration that a given psychological phenomenon can occur  
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random selection   show
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show consistency of measurement  
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show extent to which a measure assesses what it purports to measure  
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response set   show
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correlational designs   show
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illusory correlation   show
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experiment   show
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show randomly sorting participants into two groups  
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show improvement resulting from the mere expectation of improvement  
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blind   show
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show when neither researchers nor participants are aware of who's in the experimental or control group  
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show cues that participants pick up from a study that allow them to generate guesses regarding the researcher's hypotheses  
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informed consent   show
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