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Psych 111 Test

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Reliability
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Demand Characteristics
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Informed Consent
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Pseudoscience
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Science
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Appeal to Authority Fallacy
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Why did Structuralism not succeed?
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Belief Perseverence
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Heuristic
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Illusory Correlation
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Reciprocal Determinism
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Scientific Theory
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Structuralism
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Scatterplot
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Random Selection
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Random Assignment
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Appeal to Ignorance Fallacy
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Blind
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Patternicity
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Replicability
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a systematic APPROACH to evidence
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a school of psychology that aimed to IDENTIFY the basic elements of psychological characteristics ("What" questions)
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the perception of a statistical association between two variables where none exists
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unaware of whether one is in the experimental or control group
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depended on the notion that everything could be solved via introspection
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informing research participants of what is involved in a study before asking them to participate
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a grouping of points on a two-dimensional graph in which each dot represents a single person's data
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the tendency to stick to our natural beliefs even when evidence contradicts them
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the tendency to detect meaningful patterns in random stimuli
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an explanation for a large number of findings in the natural world
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the error of accepting a claim merely because an authority figure endorses it
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when a study's findings are able to be duplicated
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the error of assuming a belief must be valid just because no one has shown it to be false
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the consistency of measurement
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a procedure that ensures every person in a population has an equal chance of being chosen to participate
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a set claims that seems scientific but isn't
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cues that participants pick up from a study that allow them to generate guesses regarding the researcher's hypotheses
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the mutual influence we have on each other's behavior
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a mental shortcut or rule of thumb that helps streamline our thinking and make sense of the world
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randomly sorting participants into groups
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when neither researchers nor participants are aware of who's in the experimental or control group
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watching behavior in real-world settings without trying to manipulate the situation
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the extent to which we can generalize findings to real-world settings
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a school of psychology that proposes that thinking is central to understanding behavior
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a research design that examines the extent to which two variables are associated
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phenomenon where one is unaware of their own biases but keenly aware of biases within others
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capabile of being disproved
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variations among people in their thinking, emotions, personality, and behavior
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a demonstration that a given psychological phenomenon can occur
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improvement resulting from the mere expectation of improvement

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