Cognitive Biases
When people seek information to reinforce something they already below.
What is Confirmation Bias?
When we have confidence in our abilities or judgments than exceeds our actual abilities.
What is Overconfidence Bias?
What is a Case Study?
What is Naturalistic Observation?
When someone believes, after the fact, that they previously knew what was going to happen.
What is Hindsight Bias?
When we do something because everyone is doing it.
What is the Bandwagon Effect?
A relationship between two variables.
What is Correlation?
The name of the group in an experiment that has a variable manipulated (e.g., “receives the variable”).
What is the Experimental Group?
When John reads an article that says positive things about Trump and negative things, but he only remembers the positive things because he is a Trump supporter.
What is Confirmation Bias?
Why we are more impacted by a mean comment than a positive comment.
What is Negativity Bias?
When a sample is collected in a way such that certain portions of the intended population are over- or under-represented in the sample.
What is Sampling Bias?
The name of the group that doesn't get the variable manipulated.
What is the Control Group?
When Dave eats a hot dog and later throws up, so he is sure that it was the hot dog that made him sick.
What is Post Hoc Fallacy?
When Dave's wife has seven girls so he thinks it's more likely that the next child will be a boy.
What is Gambler's Fallacy?
The type of research method I need to use if I want to establish causation.
What is an Experiment?
In an experiment, the experimental group gets the drug and the control group gets _________.
What is a Placebo?
When a person wins a few times in a row, so she thinks that she's going to win again.
What is Hot Hand Fallacy?
Why people are more afraid of air travel than travel by car.
What is Neglect of Probability?
The best type of experiment that ensures that the experimenters won't bias the results.
What is a Double-Blind Experiment?
A research method that can tell you what people think.
What is a Survey?