PSYCH 280 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Microexpression, Pole And Polar, Identity Function
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Social psychology: the scientific study of the feelings, thoughts, and behaviors of individuals in social situation. Construal: people"s interpretation and inference about the stimuli or situations they confront. How people perceive, comprehend, and interpret the world around them. Theory: a body of related propositions intended to describe some aspect of the world. Hypothesis: a prediction about what will happen under particular circumstances. Hindsight bias: people"s tendency to be overconfident about whether they could have predicted a given outcome. Correlation: a number that indicates the degree of relationship between two variables, expressed in terms of the likelihood that one variable will (or will not) occur when the other variable does (or does not). Indicates only that two variables are related, not that one causes the other. Correlational research: research that does not involve random assignment to different situations, or conditions, and that psychologists conduct just to see whether or not there is a relationship between the variables.
