Psychology 2070A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Ethnography, External Validity, University Of Western Ontario

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2070A/B
• Professor: Taylor Kohut

Document Summary

High-sight bias whereby people exaggerate how much they could have predicted the outcome after knowing that it occurred. Ex- student of uwo read events of ww1: in one conditions participants were told that the soldier managed to convince others in the military to accept his plan and the village was saved. They opposite finding of the experiment might seem just as obvious as the results that were obtained. Theory an organized set of principles set of principles that can be used to explain observed phenomena. Hypothesis testable statement or idea about the relationship between two or more variable. After reading other people work, researchers might believe that he or she has a better way of explaining people"s behaviour. Ex- a researchers was dissatisfied with the ability of a major theory of behaviourism to explain why people change attitude. Formulation a new approach cognitive dissonance theory he made specific predictions about how and why people changed their attitudes.