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Something that can be proven wrong through tests.
What is Falsifiable?
The consistency of a research study or measuring test.
What is Reliability?
A measure of how spread out numbers are around the mean.
What is Standard Deviation?
The tendency to favor information that confirms your existing beliefs.
What is Confirmation Bias?
The scientific study of mental processes and behavior.
What is Psychology?
A relationship where if one variable increases, the other decreases.
What is a Negative Correlation?
A relationship where if one variable increases, the other does too.
What is a Positive Correlation?
Repeating a study to see if the same results are obtained.
What is Replication?
The feeling after something happens that you knew it was going to happen.
What is Hindsight Bias?
Thoughts, feelings, and motives that each of us experiences privately but that cannot be directly observed.
What is Mental Processes?
The extent to which research findings can be applied to larger populations.
What is Generalizability?
The process of having other experts examine your work to check its validity.
What is Peer Review?
The variable that is tested and measured in a scientific experiment.
What is the Dependent Variable?
Being more confident than correct; overestimating the accuracy of your beliefs.
What is Overconfidence?
Any action that people can observe or measure
The accuracy of a test or research to measure what it claims to measure.
What is Validity?
The variable that is changed or controlled in a scientific experiment.
What is the Independent Variable?
Data that can be counted or measured and given a numerical value.
What is Quantitative Data?
A prediction that you can test through study and experimentation.
What is a Hypothesis?
Information from experiments or observations rather than theories.
What is Empirical Evidence?
Groups of people responsible for reviewing proposed research to ensure that it is ethical.
What is Institutional Review Board?
A number between -1 and 1 that describes the strength and direction of a relationship between variables.
What is a Correlation Coefficient?
Clearly defining how you will measure your variables in research.
What are Operational Definitions?
Assigning participants to experimental and control groups by chance, which helps ensure that any differences observed after the treatment are due to the treatment and not a preexisting difference.
What is Random Assignment?
A step-by-step method for conducting research.
What is the Scientific Method?