Psychology 3780F/G- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 90 pages long!)

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 3780F/G
• Professor: Erin Heerey

Document Summary

Don"t jump to conclusions consider the possibility that there may be something else going on. Appeal to ignorance: argues that a claim is true because it cannot be proven to be false, or that a claim is false because it cannot be proven to be true. False alternative: either/or thinking in which some classification is presumed to be exclusive or exhaustive; overlooks alternatives that exist between the extremes. Slippery slope: argues that if the first step in a possible series of events occurs, the other possible steps in the series will inevitably occur (once someone uses an illegal drug, they will eventually become heroin addicts). Known as the gold standard (quality control) in social psychology. Maybe we just need to do it more . Problem: truth is more complicated than the hypothesis: replication crisis. This is more telling than p-val: outlier manipulation, data transformations: sometimes the outliers are the only people causing the effect, not publishing non-significant results, p-value rounding.