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| Why are the answers that flow from the scientific approach more reliable than those based on intuition and common sense? |
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Hindsight bias
Overconfidence |
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| I-knew-it-all-along mentality |
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| we seem to think we know more than we do |
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| organize observations and predicts behaviors or events |
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testable prediction
forms a question |
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| specific define procedures and concepts, measurable |
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| allow others to replicate experiment with diff participants |
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effect focus of study, factor MANIPULATED
(ex) breast feeding in breast feeding and intelligence |
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| something effected by independent variable, measure the OUTCOME |
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| everyone in random sample has an equal chance of being placed in the experimental group |
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| neither experimenter or participant know which group participant is in |
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| erroneous belief that one is receiving treatment when they really are not |
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| perceived but nonexistent correlation |
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| describe central tendency of the group |
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| if data is somehow skewed |
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| how likely are the results you got (not due to chance) |
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| how big of a difference do we have between groups |
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association or relationships
can be positive or negative
-coefficient 0, -1, +1 |
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| examines one individual in depth |
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| looks at many cases less in depth, asks people to self-report |
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part of the entire population
-convience or self selective |
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| Correlation and cause effect? |
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| correlations just show that things are related, not that one causes another |
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