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1. Personal experience
2. Intuition
3. Influences of authority |
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| Name the three reasons an individual believes what they believe |
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1. No comparison group
2. Confounds |
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| Name the two reasons one cannot base beliefs on experience |
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| Enables one to compare what would happen both with and without the idea one is testing |
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| Alternative explanations for a single outcome |
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| An actor playing a specific role for the experimenter |
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1. Mean
2. Median
3. Mode |
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| Name the three probablilites psychological data is based upon |
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1. Thinking the easy way
2. Thinking what we want |
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| Name the two cognitive biases of intuition |
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1. A good story
2. Present/present bias
3. Pop-up principle |
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| Name the three ways of thinking the easy way |
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1. Cherry-picking evidence
2. Asking biased questions
3. Being overconfident |
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| Name the three ways of thinking what we want |
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| Type of easy thinking where a tendency to observe what is present and failure to observe what is absent occurs |
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| Type of easy thinking where things that easily come to mind tend to guide one's thinking; also known as availability heuristic |
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| Type of thinking what we want where one seeks and accepts only evidence that supports what he/she is already thinking; also known as confirmation bias |
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| Confirmatory Hypothesis Testing/ Asking Bias Questions |
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| Asking questions that lead a subject to a particular, expected answer |
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| Type of thinking what we want where one's desire to be right may skew thoughts |
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1. Empirical Article
2. Review Article |
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| Name the two types of journal articles |
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| Type of journal article that reports experimental findings for the first time |
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| Type of journal article that summarizes all the research in one area; also known as a meta-analysis |
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1. Read with a purpose
2. Ask: What is the argument?
3. Ask: What is the evidence to support this argument? |
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| Name the three steps to reading an empirical article |
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1. Abstract
2. Introduction
3. Method
4. Results
5. Discussion
6. References
7. Tables, Figures, Appendices |
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| Name the seven parts of an empirical article |
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