🧪 Scientific Method Madness
This term describes a testable prediction that guides an experiment.
What is a hypothesis?
Defining variables in a way that allows them to be measured.
What is an operational definition?
This controversial 1920 experiment conditioned fear in a young child.
What is the Little Albert Experiment?
The bias where we seek out information that confirms what we already believe.
What is confirmation bias?
Where did Mr. Hannan go to college?
Rockhurst
A broad explanation of natural phenomena, supported by a large body of evidence.
What is a theory?
This ensures that an experiment accurately measures what it intends to measure.
What is validity?
This 1971 experiment studied the effects of perceived power in a simulated prison.
What is the Stanford Prison Experiment?
This bias occurs when we attribute others' behavior to their character, not the situation.
What is the fundamental attribution error?
What did Mr. Hannan minor in college?
Philosophy
The variable that is manipulated or changed by the experimenter.
What is the independent variable?
Consistency of results across multiple trials of an experiment.
What is reliability?
A 1961 study where participants administered shocks to obey authority figures.
What is the Milgram Obedience Study?
After learning new information, we assume it was obvious all along and that others should know it too.
What is the hindsight bias (curse of knowledge)?
What is Mr. Hannan's dog's name
Gertrude (Trudy)
The outcome that is measured to see the effect of the manipulation.
What is the dependent variable?
A phenomenon where expectations influence behavior or outcomes.
What is a self-fulfilling prophecy?
This 1967 study showed how repeated failures can lead to passivity.
What is the Learned Helplessness Study?
When our emotions affect our perception, causing us to overestimate positive outcomes if we’re feeling upbeat or overestimate negative outcomes if we’re feeling down.
What is optimism/pessimism bias?
Where did Mr. Hannan go to grade school?
Assumption (Mattis)
Variables that may unintentionally affect the results of an experiment.
What are extraneous variables?
A study design where participants do not know whether they are in the control or experimental group.
What is a single-blind experiment?
A 1939 speech therapy study that caused emotional harm to orphans.
What is the Monster Study?
This bias makes us irrationally stick with an investment or decision because of the effort we’ve already put in.
What is the sunk cost fallacy?
What is Mr. Hannan's favorite book?
Aldous Huxley's Brave New World