Scientific Attitude
The science of behavior and mental processes
What is psychology
When humans tend to think they know more than they do
Overconfidence
A correlation in which both variables increase in the experiment
What is positive correlation
This group doesn't receive any of the Independent Variable
What is Control Group
Similar to a bar chart but with no spaces
What is a Historgram
Type of study were researchers observe students' seating patterns in the cafeteria
What is Naturalist Observation
When Jerry sees a Dragon in every fluffy cloud he sees.
What is Perceiving Order in Random Events
The method a researcher should use if they want to test if a specific reward in a classroom causes students to behave better?
What is Experiment
The type of research that defines the variable using numbers.
What is quantitative
The statical number you should use to determine how much students' SAT scores vary from the school's average SAT score
What is Standard Deviation
3 Key Elements of the scientific attitude
What is Curiosity, Skepticism, Humility
When an athlete rarely acts surprised about their favorite team winning and says they knew it all along.
Why operational definitions are important
What is Replication
When a researcher pulls names of five students from a hat that contains all the participants names and interviews the five she selects.
What is Random Sample
The mean, median, and mode are all the same number in this distribution
What is normal distribution
The opposite of people making claims as fact solely based on their gut.
What is Critical Thinking
Participants are given a pill sugar in an experiment instead of the actual drug but behave as if they were given a pill with the drug
What is Placebo Effect
What is Social Desirability Bias
A potential problem to this type of research is that information learned may not apply to the wider population
What is Case Study
What does it mean that Joe scored in the 90th percentile on a math test in her state
What is Joe scored higher than 90 percent of others in the state
This type of attitude is expressed as "The rat is always right"
What is Humility
Three tendencies that make science based answers more valid
What is Hindsight Bias, Overconfident, and Tendency to perceive order in random events
If a hypothesis has this it is a mark of scientific strength
what is falsifiability (can it be proven false)
The difference between the Independent and Dependent Variable
What is Manipulation & Measuring
Research can be statically significance but have a weak relationship also called
What is Effect Size