PSYC 102 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Scatter Plot, Informed Consent, Confounding
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An effortless, immediate, automatic feeling or thought, as contrasted with explicit, conscious reasoning. The tendency to believe, after learning the outcome, that one would have foreseen it (the i-knee-it-all-along phenomenon) Thinking that does not blindly accept arguments and conclusions. An explanation using an integrated set of principles that organizes observations and predicts behaviors or events. A carefully worded statement with the list of procedures used in a research study. The ability to repeat the essence of a research study. A descriptive technique in which one individual or group is studied in depth in the hope of revealing universal principles. A descriptive technique of observing and recording behavior in naturally occurring situations without trying to manipulate and control the situation. A descriptive technique for obtaining the self-reported attitudes of behaviors or a particular group, usually by questioning a representative, random sample of the group. All those in a group being studied, from which samples may be drawn.
