Psychology

Science

set of methods indented to justify people’s beliefs by providing evidence

Empirical

Derived from experience (basis of science)

Replication

Repeating a scientific research study (applies both methods and result of a study)

Operational Definition

How it will be measured in a research project

Peer Review

Evaluated by a group of experts in the field

Attribution error

Mistaken conclusion that someone’s behavior is result of personality

Bias

Specific way of thinking, seeing, believing, or acting

Confirmation bias

tends to notice and pay attention to information that prior to your beliefs and ignore some that disconfirms them

False consensus

tendency to overestimate the degree to which other people agree with us

Hindsight Bias

Mistaken belief that some event or explation is something you knew

Naive

Explanations of human behavior and mental processes

Overconfidence error

People to be more confident in their judgments than they should

Statistical error

Error of judging probabilities of likehoods

Belief Perseverance

tendency to hold onto beliefs even in the face of evidence

Headline effect

Very short summary

False dichotomy or false choice

Potential explanations are presented as strict or possibility

Overgeneralization

type of oversimplification in which of finding the truth

Oversimplification

that goes far and ends up distorting or misrepresenting information

Testimonial

a user’s report on effectiveness of some treatment or product