PSY 2401 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Hindsight Bias, Operational Definition, Type B Cipher Machine
31 Oct 2018
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Knowing how research is done makes you a good consumer of any. When you think you knew the answer all along. Hearing the answer and then saying well yeaa that. Makes sense and then coming up with reasons why. Tendency for people to exaggerate how much they could have predicted an outcome after knowing that it occurred. Question theory hypotheses research. Question hypotheses research theory hypotheses research. [a theory = (a big idea that is used as an. Need to break it up into testable pieces thats why we. Terror management theory (might be in chapter 3) To answer general questions such as why people behave as they do . Research conducted to solve a specific/ particular problem. Adult personality is made up of 5 super traits. We could use the basic research to solve a more. Give enough detail so someone else can exactly. Extent to which a test measures what it is supposed to measure.
