PSY 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Krypto, Illusory Correlation, Scientific Method
15 Oct 2017
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Lecture 2: research methods in psychology: hindsight bias class demonstration as an experiment. 1)experimental methods: involve manipulating factors to determine their effect on other factors. : the phenomenon whereby we tend to exaggerate our ability to have foreseen how something would turn out after learning the outcome. This tendency seems to stem from our keen ability to engage in after-the-fact reasoning: theory: an organized set of concepts that explains a phenomenon or set of phenomena. The factor i manipulated was the type of research finding that you read about: dependent variable: in an experiment, this factor may be influenced by, or depend on, the independent variable. Does the finding strike you as surprising or not surprising? . Asked you to decide whether you found this surprising or not surprising. Expectancy effects: when researcher communicates to participants the kind of behavior he or she expects to find thereby creating that expected reaction.
