Bias & Perspectives
The cognitive bias is the tendency to favor information that confirms what you already believe.
What is confirmation bias?
This is the only research design that uses random assignment and manipulation of an IV
What is experiment?
This is a testable, falsifiable prediction about how variables relate
What is a hypothesis?
This board reviews research in proposals to make sure a study is ethical before it begins
What is Institutional Review Board (IRB)
This measure of central tendency is a mathematical average in a data set
What is the mean?
The bias is the "I knew it all along" feeling after you learn how something turned out.
What is hindsight bias?
This non-experimental design is an in-depth investigation of just one person or a small group
What is a case study?
This is the variable the reserach deliberately manipulates
What is independent variable?
Adult participants give this after being told what the study involves
What is informed consent?
This is the middle score when dates are ordered from low to high
What is median?
This bias means overestimating how accurate your own judgments or knowledge really are.
What is overconfidence?
This design measures the relationship between 2 variables without manipulating either one
What is a correlational study?
This term describes an uncontrolled variable that could explain the results instead of the IV
What is confounding variable?
This safeguard means a participant's identity is never even recorded
What is anonymity?
This measure shows how spread out scores are around the mean
What is standard deviation?
This term describes the shared experiences and circumstances of a culture that shape behavior and mental processes.
What are cultural norms?
This design statistically combines the results of many separate studies on one question.
What is meta-analysis?
In this procedure, neither the participants nor researches know who is in the group
What is double blind experiment/prodecure
When reseraches purposefully mislead participants about a studies purpose, this must happen afterword to explain the true intention of the study
What is debriefing?
This graph displays paired data points and is used to visualize a correlation.
What is a scatterplot?
Stretching a psychological theory to unfairly stereotype a group is applying it in this kind of way.
What is discriminatory/inappropriate?
This method involves observing behavior in a real-world setting without interfering
What is naturalistic observation?
There are cues in a study that reveal its purpose and can change how participants behave.
What are demand characteristics?
These people pose as participants but are secretly working with the researcher
What are research confederates (other words work too!!)
This phenomenon explains why an unusually extreme score tends to be closer to average when measured again.
What is regression towards the mean?