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Psy100-OSU-RschMthds Test

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internal validity
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availability heuristic
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Heuristics..
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illusory correlation
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cognitive biases
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experimenter expectantcy effect
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halo effect
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self report measures
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statistics
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Experimental research design
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advantages of self report measures
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standard deviation
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nocebo
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hindsight bias
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response sets
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mean
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demand characteristics
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inferential statistics
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Representativeness heuristic
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hawthorne effect
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application of mathematics to describing and analyzing data
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perception of a statistical association between two variables when none exists
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mathematical methods that allow us to determine whether we can generalize findings from our sample to the full population
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systematic errors in thinking
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tendency to overestimate how well we could have successfully forecasted known outcomes
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a measure of dispersion that takes into account how far each data point is from the mean
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phonomenon in which researchers' hypothesis lead them to unintentionally bias a study outcome
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harm from expectation of harm
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participants knowledge that they're being studied affects their behavior
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surveys, questionaires
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tendencies of research participants to distort their responses to questionaire items
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the extent to which we can draw cause & effect influences from a study
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heuristic that involves judging the probibility of an event by its superficial similarity to a prototype (judging a book by its cover... using stereotypes, etc.)
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estimating the liklihood of an event by the ease at chich it comes to our minds
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easy, direct to person
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average; a measure of central tendency
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Mental shortcuts that help us to streamline our thinking and make sense of our world.
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design characterized by 1. random assignment of participants to conditions, and 2. manipulation of an independent variable
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cues that participants pic up from a study that allow them to generate guesses regarding its hypothesis. (type of hawthorne effect)
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tendency of ratings of one positive characteristic to influence the ratings of other positive characteristics
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research design that examines one person or a small number of people in depth, often for a long period of time
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investigation of the consistency of patterns of results across large numbers of studies from different laboratories
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a test must be reliable to be valid, but a reliable test can still be completely invalid.
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surgical procedure that severs fibers connecting the frontal lobrs of re brain from underlying thalamus.
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measure of the "central" scores in a data set, or where the group tends to cluster
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numerical categorizations that describe data
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every population member has equal chance of being selected to particpate
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any difference between experimental and control groups (other than ind. variable)
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randomly assigning participants to either control or experimental group
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unaware whether one is in the control or experimental group

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