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Text: Finding that something has happened makes it seem inevitable
Self: When a person believes that an outcome or course of actions was clear and predictable when looking back on events with knowledge of the results |
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Text: Examining assumptions, discern hidden values, evaluated evidence, and assesses conclusions
Self: Analyzing the possible strengths and weaknesses of anything which is purported to be true |
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Text: An explanation using an integrated set of principles that organizes observations and predicts behaviors or events
Self: An idea based on evidence used to explain an observed phenomenon |
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Text: A testable prediction, often implied by a theory
Self: A testable prediction on what results an event/experiment will yield |
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Text: A statement of the procedures used to define research variables
Self: A detailed explanation of how a variable is tested; capable of being replicated |
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Text: Repeating the essence of a research study, usually with different participants in different situations, to see whether the basic finding extends to other participants and circumstances
Self:Repeating a study in order to validate or disprove the results. |
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Text:...study one individual in great depth in the hope of revealing things true of us all
Self: An in depth study of an individual or phenomenon |
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Text:Asks people to report their behavior or opinions
Self: Questions used to gather public opinions |
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Text: The tendency to overestimate others' agreement with us
Self: The surety that others think and behave as we do |
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Text: The whole group you want to study and describe
Self: The entire group being studied (not the sample) |
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| Text: ...in which every person in the entire group has an equal chance of participating |
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Text:Watching and recording the behavior of organisms in their natural environment
Self: Observation of a naturally occurring phenomenon with no control of variables or course of events |
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Text: When...one trait or behavior accompanies another
Self: When one variable affect another (can be positive, negative, or none) |
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Text: ...each point plots the value of 2 variables
Self: A ways of plotting individual data points in order to determine a pattern or lack thereof |
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Text: A perceived nonexistent correlation
Self: When we see a pattern which we expect to see but which is not really there |
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