Psychological Science
When people are wrong about the outcome of an event, but claim they knew it was going to go the opposite way to which they originally stated.
Hindsight Bias
A way of approaching a scientific question and conducting an experiment to test said scientific question
Scientific Method
The middle score in a distribution; half the scores are above it and half are below it.
Median
examines assumptions, discerns hidden values, evaluates evidence, and assesses conclusions.
Critical Thinking
A testable prediction, often implied by a theory.
Hypothesis
The most frequently occurring score(s) in a distribution.
Mode
Tending to think more then you do.
Overconfidence
An explanation using an integrated set of principles that organizes observations and predicts behaviors or events.
Theory
A computed measure of how much scores vary around the mean score.
Standard Deviation
An awareness of our own vulnerability to error and an openness to surprises and new perspectives.
Humility
The perception of a relationship where none exists. An example of this would be a coincidence.
Illusory Correlation
A symmetrical, bell-shaped curve that describes the distribution of many types of data, most scores fall near the mean.
Normal Curve
This underlines all science; named after a famous cartoon monkey.
Curiosity
The research participants and the research staff are ignorant about the research participants having received the treatment or placebo.
Double-blind Procedure
A statistical statement of how likely it is that an obtained result occurred by chance.
Statistical Significance