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Psych 111 Test

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Multiply Determined
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Cognitive Psychology
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Dependent Variable
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Central Tendency
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Double Blind
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Hasty Generalization Fallacy
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Random Assignment
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Appeal to Authority Fallacy
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Interrater Reliability
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Confirmation Bias
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Independent Variable
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Pseudoscience
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Emotional Reasoning Fallacy (Affect Heuristic)
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Belief Perseverence
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Natural Selection
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Not Me Fallacy
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Patternicity
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Statistics
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Genetic Fallacy
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Psychoanalysis
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principle that organisms that possess adaptations survive and reproduce at a higher rate than do other organisms
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the error of drawing a conclusion on the basis of insufficient evidence
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a set claims that seems scientific but isn't
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the extent to which different observers agree on the characteristics they're measuring
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the variable that an experimenter measures to see whether the manipulation has an effect
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the variable that an experimenter manipulates
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randomly sorting participants into groups
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a school of psychology, founded by Freud, that focuses on internal psychological processes of which we are unaware
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the error of accepting a claim merely because an authority figure endorses it
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to be produced by MANY actions
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the error of using our emotions as a guides for evaluating the validity of a claim
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the tendency to stick to our natural beliefs even when evidence contradicts them
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a school of psychology that proposes that thinking is central to understanding behavior
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the application of mathematics to describing and analyzing data
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the error of confusing the correctness of a belief with its time period of origin
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measure of the "central" scores in a data set of where the group tends to cluster
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when neither researchers nor participants are aware of who's in the experimental or control group
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the tendency to detect meaningful patterns in random stimuli
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the error of believing that we're immune from errors in thinking that afflict other people
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the tendency to seek out evidence that supports our hypothesis and deny, dismiss, or distort evidence that contradicts them
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when a study's findings are able to be duplicated
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phenomenon where one is unaware of their own biases but keenly aware of biases within others
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research examining how we can use basic research to solve real-world problems
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unaware of whether one is in the experimental or control group
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when a test yields similar scores over time
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the error of framing a question as though we can only answer it in one of two extreme ways
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a research design characterized by random assignment of participants to conditions and manipulation of an independent variable
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a discipline that applies Darwin's theory of natural selection to human and animal behavior
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the tendency of research participants to distort their responses to questionnaire items
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Intuitive thinking; thinking that doesn't require much mental effort

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