PSY 005 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Psych, Confirmation Bias
15 Aug 2020
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What does the research process look like. Confirmatory research starts with the hypothesis generation, design the experiment; data collection; analysis and interpretation; update theory. Exploratory research includes exploring research/discover interesting patterns (between analysis and interpretation and update theory) Post-hoc hypotheses: generated after results were gotten. A result that indicates that a given condition exists, when it does not. For instance, results only happened by chance (was just an extreme value, but not true about a population) Researchers make many which are methodologically arbitrary. Intentional data exclusions (for instance another dv doesn"t look so good) Researcher really personally believes in his theory (like studying psychic powers and watching octopus choose winning team) (wason) people prefer to flip card that help their working hypothesis. (nisbett) stocking study people came up[ with incredibly irrational reasons for why they chose a sock. Hypothesizing after results are know (adjusting from first hypothesis) Why do we want it to be .
