PSYC 260 Chapter : 2_Chapter_2
13 Jan 2022
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Understanding research methods: helps you understand the terminology and thought process of the field, provides insight into the conclusion we can draw form any study, makes you an educated consumer of research. Hindsight bias: as known as knew it all along effect. The tendency for people to exaggerate how much they could have predicted the outcome after knowing that it occurred. This is a fundamental principle of social psychology is that human social behaviour can be studied scientifically. Theory: an organized set of principles that can be used to explain observed phenomena. Hypothesis: a testable statement or idea about the relationship between two or more variables. Social psychologists, like scientists in other disciplines, engage in a continual process of theory refinement: they develop a theory, test specific hypotheses derived from that theory, and based on the results, revise the theory, and formulate new hypotheses. Researchers often observe a phenomenon in everyday life that they find curious and interesting.
