PSYC 215 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-10: Likert Scale, Duration Neglect, Preposition And Postposition
7 Jun 2016
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Hindsight bias: people"s tendency to be overconfident about whether they could have predicted a given outcome. Random sampling: giving everyone in the population an equal chance of being chosen. Convenience sampling may be biased as it might include too many of some kinds of people and too few of others: e. g. contacting people as they enter the library. Archival research: looking at archives of various kinds to come up with theories. It is hypothesized to be affected by manipulation of the independent variable. Random assignment: assigning participants in experimental research to different groups randomly, so they are as likely to be assigned to one condition as another. This rules out the possibility of self- selection biases in samples. Control condition: a condition comparable to the experimental condition in every way except that it lacks the one ingredient hypothesized to produce the expected effect on the dependent variable.
