Besides Hindsight Bias and Personal Bias, it is the third Barrier to Inquiry in Psychology - and involves having knowledge or insight without observation or reason.
What is Intuition?
100
It is the Variable manipulated by the Experimenter and its effect is the focus of the study.
What is the Independent Variable?
100
Having one of these means there IS a relationship between two variables, but one does not necessarily cause the other.
What is a Correlation?
100
Tony Stark is better known by this "heroic" name.
What is "Iron Man"?
200
In Psychology there are this many steps to Scientific Inquiry,
What is Five (5)?
200
Two of the Methods of Study in Psychology involve this word - which is also the second step in Scientific Inquiry.
What is Observation?
200
A graph that shows the relationship between two variables - it will reveal correlation, causation, or no relationship.
What is a Scatterplot?
200
It is the term for the average of a group of data.
What is the Mean?
200
It is the oldest branch of the United States Military (formed in 1775).
What is the Army?
300
It is the Third Step in Scientific Inquiry in Psychology, and involves making an educated guess to explain something.
What is Hypothesis?
300
It is the Method of Study where a subject "self-reports" their mind and behavior - and may not be reliable if a subject is dishonest.
What is Survey?
300
Your beliefs, upbringing, how much sleep you had the night before, and personal preferences would all be examples of this variable - one that, unfortunately, can change the outcome of an experiment.
What are Extraneous Variables?
300
Giving a patient a sugar-pill instead of actual medicine, to see the results, would be an example of this.
What is a Placebo?
300
It is the rank held by your Psychology Teacher.
What is First Lieutenant?
400
These are the two steps of Scientific Inquiry in Psychology that do NOT repeat, even when a Conclusion does not give an answer.
What are Question and Observation?
400
Critical Thinking involves examining assumptions, evaluating evidence, and then assessing these.
What are conclusions?
400
In an experiment where we increase the temperature in a classroom to see if more Cadets fall asleep, this would be the Dependent Variable.
What is "the number of Cadets that fall asleep"?
400
Given the following set of date, it would be the Mode.
13, 18, 13, 14, 13, 16, 14, 21, 13
What is Thirteen (13)?
400
This film will open in theaters this Friday, and stars Matt Damon as an Astronaut stranded on a distant planet.
What is "The Martian"?
500
A hypothesis that has not been disproven, or is generally accepted as correct is called this.
What is a Theory?
500
The most famous example of Naturalistic Observation involved this woman, who lived among Gorillas for over a year to observe their psychology.
Who is Jane Goodall?
500
It is the word for a subject, case, or group that is considered outside the norm, or not reflective of the "usual" answer in an experiment, and having many of these can make a conclusion invalid.
What is an Outlier?
500
Logical Fallacies can cause people to assume there is a relationship where there is not, and in our classic example, it would mean that you believed increased global temperatures killed these.
What are Pirates?
500
On September 30, 1947, this sporting even was televised for the first time - and both teams were from New York.