On Monday, your best friend told everyone he saw and on social media that he "totally knew that the Packers would win". This is an example of
What is hindsight bias?
100
Testable prediction; used to provide support or disprove a theory.
What is hypothesis?
100
When every person in a group has an equal chance of participating it is called
What is a random sample?
100
A research method to find cause and effect between variables is called
What is experimentation?
100
The arithmetic average of a distribution of numbers is
What is mean?
200
There are 3 parts to the Scientific Attitude: Being open to being wrong and making mistakes and being open to changing ideas is demonstrating
What is humility?
200
To repeat the research that someone else has already completed is to ______________ that research.
What is replicate?
200
Which number shows the greatest correlation?
+0.87 or -0.97
What is -0.97?
200
The variable that is changed in an experiment is called
What is an independent variable?
200
The middle score of a set of data is
What is median?
300
"The telephone may be appropriate for our American cousins, but not here, because we have an adequate supply of messenger boys." - British expert group evaluating the invention of the telephone.
This quote is an example of _____________.
What is overconfidence?
300
Research method used to study rare behaviors, diseases, etc..
What is case study?
300
A measure of how well 2 variables predict each other is called
What is a correlation?
300
An experimental procedure in which neither the researcher nor the participant knows about what treatment they are receiving and helps remove bias is called
What is double-blind procedure?
300
The most frequently occurring number in a set of scores is
What is mode?
400
Examining assumptions, assessing the source, looking for hidden values, confirming evidence are things that all good scientists do. This is called
What is critical thinking?
400
Explaining behaviors or events by offering ideas that organizing observations is a
What is theory?
400
The statistical measure of the relationship between two variables is
What is a correlation coefficient?
400
When a participant thinks they feel the effects of a drug even though they took an inert substance it is called the
What is placebo effect?
400
The bell shaped curve that described many types of data is called
What is a normal curve?
500
Before taking the ACT, Gail kept telling everyone that she was going to get a 29 on it. Gail is exhibiting
What is overconfidence?
500
Students that get 8 hours of sleep do better on memory tests than students who got 4 hours of sleep. The specific amount of sleep is an
What is operational definition?
500
the perception of a relationship where there is none is
What is illusory correlation?
500
Factors that can interfere/influence the variables that are being tested are called
What are confounding variables?
500
A computed measure of how much scores vary around the mean score is