PSYCH 280 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Terror Management Theory, Spreading Activation, Extreme Behavior
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Construals: people"s interpretation and inference about the stimuli or situations they confront. Construct: the conceptual representation of behaviors or the phenomenon around which research is based. Correlational study: research in which there is no random assignment to different situations, or conditions, and from which psychologists can just see whether or not there is a relationship between variables. Correlation does not prove causation (e. g. , a survey investigation the relationships between workers" conscientiousness and job performance) Debriefing: procedure to probe participants if they bought" a deception, understood the instructions, found the setup to be reasonable, as well as to fully clarify deceptions and the purpose and goals of the research conducted. Dependent variable: the variable that is measured and is hypothesized to be affected by the. External validity: an experimental setup that closely resembles real-life situations so that results can safely be generalized to such situations. Hindsight bias: people"s tendency to be overconfident about whether they could have predicted a given outcome.
