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Ch 2 Research methods (p. 63-96)

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prefrontal lobotomy   show
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Heuristics..   show
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Representativeness heuristic   show
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base rate   show
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show estimating the liklihood of an event by the ease at chich it comes to our minds  
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cognitive biases   show
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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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show extent to which we can generalize findings to real world settings  
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show high degree of external validity  
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show low degree of internal validity, which is the extent to which we can draw cause&effect inferences.  
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show the extent to which we can draw cause & effect influences from a study  
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case study   show
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show demonstrations that a given psychological phonomenon can occur.  
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show helpful in existence proofs, can study rare phonomena  
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disadv of case study   show
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show research design that determines the extent to which two variables are associated  
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correlational meanings (r=)   show
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show grouping of points on a 2d graph in which each dot represents a singer person's data  
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illusory correlation   show
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show design characterized by 1. random assignment of participants to conditions, and 2. manipulation of an independent variable  
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show randomly assigning participants to either control or experimental group  
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show group that recieves the manipulation  
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show group that doesn't recieve manipulation  
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show varaible that an experimenter manipulates  
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dependent variable   show
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confound   show
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Experiment & Causation Vs. Correlation   show
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meta-analysis   show
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file drawer problem   show
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show improvement from expectation of improvement  
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show harm from expectation of harm  
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show unaware whether one is in the control or experimental group  
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show phonomenon in which researchers' hypothesis lead them to unintentionally bias a study outcome  
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show neither experimenters nor participants know which group is control / experimental  
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hawthorne effect   show
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random SELECTION   show
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show 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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show consistency of measurement  
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show extent to which a measure assesses what it claims to measure  
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reliability vs validity   show
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self report measures   show
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advantages of self report measures   show
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disadvantages   show
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show tendencies of research participants to distort their responses to questionaire items  
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halo effect   show
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show opposite of halo effect  
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show tendency of raters to provide ratings that are overly generous  
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error of central tendency   show
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ethical guidelines for human research   show
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show 1. use whenever humans cant be used. 2. any pain must be justified by expected benefits of human welfare  
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show informing research participants of what is involved in a study before asking them to participate  
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show application of mathematics to describing and analyzing data  
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show numerical categorizations that describe data  
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central tendency   show
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show average; a measure of central tendency  
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show middle score in a data set, a measure of central tendency  
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show most frequent score in a data set, a measure of central tendency  
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show how loosely or tightly bunched scores are  
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show difference between highest and lowest scores, a measure of dispersion  
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standard deviation   show
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show mathematical methods that allow us to determine whether we can generalize findings from our sample to the full population  
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