Chapter 2 Research Methods

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Hindsight Bias

(I knew it all along phenomenon) the tendency to believe, after learning an out come, that one would have forseen it

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Folk psychology

Tries to explain peoples feelings and actions

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theory

Statement about the causal relation between two or more variables

Model of interconnected ideas or concepts that explain what is observed make predictions about future events and is based in empirical evidence

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Hypothesis

Specific, testable prediction, narrower than the theory it is based on