PSY 1101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Scatter Plot, Standard Deviation, Confounding

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Mark Dallas

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Hindsight bias: the tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that would have foreseen it. (also known as the i-knew-it-all-along phenomenon. ) Critical thinking: thinking that does not blindly accept arguments and conclusions. Rather, it examines assumptions, discerns hidden values, evaluates evidence, and assesses conclusions. Theory: an explanation using an integrated set of principles that organizes observations and predicts behaviors or events. Hypothesis: a testable prediction, often implied by a theory. Operational definition: a statement of the procedures (operations) used to define research variables. For example, human intelligence may be operationally defined as what an intelligence test measures . Replication: repeating the essence of a research study, usually with different participants in different participants in different situations, to see whether the basic finding extends to other participants and circumstances. Case study: an observation technique in which one person is studied in depth in the hope of revealing universal principles.