When we see certain outcomes as obvious based on what has occurred, we may be experiencing
a. empiricism.
b. critical thinking.
c. hindsight bias.
d. overconfidence.
e. humility.
What is hindsight bias?
100
What is another name for hindsight bias?
What is the I-knew-it-all-along phenomenon
100
What is an operational definition? Give an example.
What is operational definition is a carefully worded statement of the exact procedures used in a research study.
100
What is correlation? What is used to represent a correlation on a graph?
What is correlation is a measure of the extent to which two variables change together. A scatterplot is used.
100
What is mean, median, and mode
What is mean is the average, mode is the most frequently occurring, median is the middle score.
200
To understand the unusual behavior of an adult client, a clinical psychologist carefully investigates the client's current life situation and his physical, social-cultural, and educational history. Which research method has the psychologist used?
a. the survey
b. the case study
c. experimentation
d. naturalistic observation
e. correlation
What is a case study?
200
After a student council election, a friend tells you he has know for weeks who would be elected president. What does this seem to illustrate?
a. skepticism
b. critical thinking
c. hindsight bias
d. overconfidence
e. perceiving order in random events
What is hindsight bias.
200
What is a hypothesis? Give an example.
What is hypothesis is a testable prediction.
200
What are the three types of correlation? What is the difference?
What is illusory, positive, and negative.
200
Which measure of central tendency would be most appropriate in determining housing values in a particular community?
a. range
b. mode
c. median
d. mean
e. standard deviation
What is mean?
300
Professor Ober carefully observes and records the behaviors of children in their classrooms in order to track the development of their social and intellectual skills. Professor Ober is most clearly engaged in
a. survey research.
b. naturalistic observation.
c. experimentation.
d. replication.
e. correlation.
What is naturalistic observation?
300
What do we call the tendency to exaggerate the correctness or accuracy of our beliefs and predictions?
What is overconfidence
300
What is the difference between a case study and naturalistic observation?
What is a case study is a descriptive technique in which one individual or group is studied in depth. A naturalistic observation is observing and recording behavior in naturally occurring situations without trying to control or manipulate the situation.
300
What is the difference between the experimental group and the control group?
What is experimental group is exposed to the treatment, control group is not.
300
DAILY DOUBLE: Explain the difference between descriptive and inferential statistics in research.
What is descriptive stats organize and summarize the data collected during research. Inferential stats are used to help determine whether results can be generalized to a larger population.
400
Abdul has volunteered to participate in an experiment evaluating the effectiveness of aspirin. Neither he nor the experimenters know whether the pills he takes during the experiment contain aspirin or are merely placebos. The investigators are apparently making use of
a. naturalistic observation.
b. illusory correlation.
c. the double-blind procedure.
d. random sampling.
e. the overconfidence effect.
What is the double-blind procedure?
400
Name three components of the scientific attitude, and give an example for one.
What is curiosity, skepticism, and humility.
400
What is sampling bias? And how can you eliminate it in an experiment?
What is a flawed sampling process that produces an unrepresentative sample. Random assignment/random sample can be used.
400
What is the difference between the independent variable and the dependent variable? Give an example of each in an experiment.
What is independent is the factor that is being manipulated, dependent is not. Examples will vary.
400
In a normal distribution, what percentage of the scores in the distribution falls within one standard deviation of the mean?
What is 68%
500
Mr. and Mrs. Klostreich have six children aged 5, 6, 6, 7, 8, and 16. The mean age of the Klostreich children is
a. 4.
b. 5.
c. 6.
d. 7.
e. 8.
500
Aziz has read that handwriting reveals important details about personality. Explain how each component of the scientific attitude can help Aziz investigate the accuracy of the information he has read about handwriting analysis.
What is answers vary...
500
What are the steps in the scientific method?
500
Give an example of the following research methods
-descriptive, correlational, experimental
What is answers will vary
500
Tanya is helping the school’s track and field coach recruit athletes for the upcoming season. She is timing her classmates as they run the 100- yard dash. She has tested 20 students so far and wants to show her coach the results. Which of the following would be the most appropariate way for Tanya to display her data for her couch.
(A) a bar graph
(B) a scatterplot
(C) a normal distribution
(D) a positively skewed distribution
(E) a histogram