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Psychologists

Psychologists

________ use corr to predict how variables influence each other.

Hindsight Bias

________: the tendency to believe that you would have forseen an outcome.

Surveys

________: a techenique for ascertaining the self- reported attitudes and behaviors of people, usually by questioning a sample.

human mind

The ________ is capable of amazing feats of intellegence and deduction, but it can also succumb to the the distortions of hindsight bias, overconfidence and misperception.

Scatterplots

________: graphic representatien of correlations where data from 2 Variables are plotted.

Hawthorne Effect

________: when a participant in a study acts differently because they know that they are being watched or observed.

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Positive correlation

________: related variables either increase or decrease in the same direction.

Operational Definition

________: a statement of the procedures or ways in which a researcher is going to measure behaviours or qualities.

Experiments

What are the only type of research method that can prove causation? Answer with a single words or term.

Courtesy Bias

The problem w /surveys is that people may not be honest and are at the risk of a countesy bias. ________: tendency of individuals to report what they think the researchers want to hear rather than their true opinion.

Negative Correlation

________: when one variable increases while the other decreases (ex: More l work, less l excercise)

Naturalistic Observation

________: process of observing a subject in its natural environment w /o any manipulation; main advantage of this is overcoming experimental contamination.

Correlation Coeffecient

________: measure of the direction+ extent between 2 sets of scores.

Quasi type experiments

________ are experiments that do not prove causation as the control and experiment groups are chosen on purpose.