Unit 1 and 2 (History, Research etc)

Applied Research

Investigates issues that have implications for everyday life

-clinical psych

-school psych

-forensic

-sports

Basic Research

Answers fundamental questions about behavior

-developmental

-social

-biopsych and neuro

-cognitive

-health

Self-serving bias

Tendency to take credit for good things and deflect blame for bad things

Cognitive misers

Humans save “scarce on-line processing capacity by taking shortcuts” and these can be good or bad (biases)

Empirical research/science

Systematic collection and analysis of data

Descriptive Research

Create a snapshot of current state of affairs (case studies, surveys)

Correlational research

Assesses relationships between or among 2+ variables (scatter plot, is IV and DV linked?)

Experimental Research

Assess casual impact of 1+ exp. Manipulations on a dependent variable (random assignments)

Hindsight bias

Thinking after learning a new fact that you could have known the fact before being taught it

SIFT (critical thinking mindset)

S: Stop, what is the source?

I: Investigate, is it objective?

F: Find, look at sources

T: Trace, what is the origin?