Psychology Unit 2
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| Hindsight Bias | The tendency to believe, after learning an outcome that one would have foreseen it. (AKA the I-Knew-It-All-Along phenomenon)
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| Critical Thinking | Thinking that does not blindly accept arguments or conclusions. Rather, it examines assumptions, discerns hidden values, evaluates evidence, and assesses conclusions
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| Theory | An explanation using an integrated set of principles that organizes observations and predicts behaviors of events
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| Hypothesis | A testable prediction often implied by a theory
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| Population | All the cases in a group being studied, from which samples may be drawn
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| Random Sample | A sample that fairly represents a population because each member has an equal chance of inclusion
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| Naturalistic Observation | Observing and recording behavior in naturally occurring situations without trying to manipulate and control the situation
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| Correlation | A measure of the extent to which two factors vary together and thus of how well either factor predicts the other
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| Debriefing | The post experimental explanation of a study; including its purpose and any description, to its participants
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| Informed Consent | An ethical principle that research participants be told enough to enable them to choose whether they wish to participate
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| Culture | The enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, and traditions shared by a group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next
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| Statistical Significance | A statistical statement of how likely it is that an obtained result occurred by chance
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| Normal Curve | 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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| Standard Deviation | A completed measure of how much scores vary around the mean score
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| Range | The difference between the highest and lowest scores of the distribution
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| Median | The middle score in a distribution; half the scores are above it and half below it
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| Mean | The arithmetic average of a distribution obtained by adding the scores and then dividing by the number of scores
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| Mode | The most frequently occurring score(s) in a distribution
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| Dependent Variable | The outcome factor; the variable that may change in response to manipulations of the independent variable
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| Cofounding Variable | A factor other than the independent variable that might produce and effect in an experiment
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| Independent Variable | The experimental factor that is manipulated; the variable that might produce an effect in the experiment
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