Ch. 6
Scientific thinking consists of three things: comparison, control, and ________
Manipulation
Controlling for extraneous variables can lead to this "problem" of psychology where people feel the studies we do seem "fake"
The "artificiality" problem
When we classify something according to how similar it is to a typical case
The representativeness heuristic
Knowledge of how to do something without knowing the underlying principles of how it works, according to Stanovich
Recipe knowledge
The variable being manipulated in an experiment
Independent variable
Samples that are used because they are in easy access for a researcher
Convenience samples
Being a citizen is ______ for voting in the United States, but citizenship alone does not guarantee a person will vote.
Necessary
One of the reasons psychologists are our own worst enemy: we do little to no ___________
Public communication
The name of the horse who reportedly knew how to do math
Clever Hans
The "problem" in research involving how representative a sample might be to the general population
The "college sophomore" problem
a variable that influences behavior at a particular level having an impact on another variable at a particular level is called a ________
Interaction
When we detect bias in others' judgments but not our own, we are falling for the _____
Bias blind spot
Additional variables that can impact the causal relationship between two variables
Extraneous variables
Each member of the population has an equal chance of being selected to participate
Random sampling
Two co-occurring events that strike us as odd or strange
Oddmatches
The type of psychology that is potentially most influenced by political homogenization
Social psychology
What did Goldberger's experiment have that John Snow's didn't?
Random assignment to conditions
Directly
Billy Beane's use of Sabermetrics in baseball was an example of
Actuarial prediction
Pseudoscience can be partially characterized by a tendency to place the burden of proof on _____, not proponents, of claims
Skeptics