PSY 101 Study Guide - Final Guide: Hindsight Bias, Wilhelm Wundt, Syphilis
14 Mar 2014
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The study of behavior and mental process. What does psychology try to do? (i. e. , four goals/aims/jobs) Applied scientific principle to the human mind. Structuralism: not biased, make psychology more scientific. What is wrong with human intuition? know the different types of biases discussed in class: overconfidence, hindsight bias, availability bias, confirmation. Think without blindly accepting conclusions and arguments: perceive a question, state a clear theory, form hypotheses, test those hypotheses by collecting data, evaluate the theory/draw conclusions, share/report the results. Laboratory research research conducted in a controlled environment. Field research research conducted in real world environment. Correlational research correlational coefficient types of correlations (i. e. , positive or negative) determining the strength of a correlation. Independent variable the variable that is being experimented. Dependent variable the outcomes variable that changes due to the iv. Control variables variables that are kept the same. Picking random people from a population of interest. Randomly assigning people to the controlled group or the experimented group.
