psychology chapter 1
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| show | the tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen it.
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| Critical Thinking | show 🗑
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| show | an explanation using an integrated set of principles that organizes observations and predicts behaviors or events
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| hypothesis | show 🗑
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| operational definiton | show 🗑
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| show | repeating the essence of a research study, usually with different participants in different situations, to see whether the basic finding extends to other participants and circumstances
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| naturalistic observation | show 🗑
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| show | a technique for ascertaining the self-reported attitudes or behaviors of a particular group, usually by questioning a representative, random sample of the group
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| show | all the cases in a group being studied, from which samples may be drawn
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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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| correlation coefficient | show 🗑
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| show | A scatter plot, scatterplot, or scattergraph is a type of mathematical diagram using Cartesian coordinates to display values for typically two variables for a set of data
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| show | a research method in which an investigator manipulates one or more factors to observe the effect on some behavior or metal process
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| show | in an experiment, the group that is exposed to the treatment, that is, to one version if the independent varibale
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| show | in an experiment, the group that is not exposed to the treatment
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| show | assigning participants to experimental and control groups by chance, thus minimizing preexisting differences between those assigned to the different groups
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| show | an experimental procedure in which both the research staff are ignorant(blind) blind about whether the research participants have received the treatment or a placebo
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| show | experimental results caused by expectations alone; any effect on behavior caused by the administration of an inert substance or condition, which the recipient assumes is an active agent
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| show | the experimental factor that is manipulated; the variable whose effect is being studied
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| show | a factor other than the independent variable that might produce an effect in an experiment
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| mode | show 🗑
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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 the distribution; half the scores are above it and half are below it
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| show | a computed measure of how much scores vary around the mean score
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| show | a symmetrical, bell-shaped curve that describes the distribution of many types of data; most scores fall near the mean and fewer and fewer near the extremes
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| show | the enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, values, and traditions shared by a group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next
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| show | the post-experimental explanation of a study, including its purpose and any deceptions, to its participants
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