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- Q1the study of behavior and thinking using the experimental methodexperimental psychology30s
- Q2the science of bahavior and mental processespsychology30s
- Q3the tendency to believe, after learning an outcome that one would have foreseen it (also known as I-knew-it-all-along phenomenon)hindsight bias30s
- Q4thinking that does not blindly accept arguments and conclusions. Rather, it examines assumptions, discerns hidden values, evaluates evidence, and assesses conclusionscritical thinking30s
- Q5a testable prediction, often implied by a theoryhypothesis30s
- Q6a carefully worded statement of the exact procedures (operations) used in a research study. For example, human intelligence may be operationally defined as what an intelligence test measuresoperational definition30s
- Q7repeating the essence of a research study, usually with different participants in different situations, to see whether the basic finding extends to other participants and circumstancesreplication30s
- Q8an observation technique in which one person is studied in depth in the hope of revealing universal principlescase study30s
- Q9a technique for ascertaining the self-reported attitudes or behaviors of a particular group, usually by questioning a representative, random sample of a groupsurvey30s
- Q10all the cases in a group being studied, from which samples may be drawnpopulation30s
- Q11a sample that fairly represents a population because each member has an equal chance of inclusionrandom sample30s
- Q12observing and recording behavior in naturally occurring situations without trying to manipulate and control the situationnaturalistic observation30s
- Q13a measure of the extent to which two factors vary together, and thus of how well either factor predicts the othercorrelation30s
- Q14a statistical index of the relationship between two things (from -1 to +1)correlation coefficient30s
- Q15a graphed cluster of dots, each of which represents the values of two variables. The slope of the points suggests the direction of the relationship between the two variables. The amount of scatter suggests the strength of the correlation (little scatter indicates high correlation).scatterplot30s