PSYB10H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Sampling Bias, Cognitive Dissonance, Internal Validity
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The value of social psychology research: hindsight bias: tendency to believe that one could predict an outcome when reality you couldn"t predict accurately, ex. People asked to predict something weren"t accurate, whereas people given answer before asking if they could have predicted accurately are con dent. **things are often obvious only in hindsight, not in foresight** Thought experiment: thinking how you would test a given idea, leading to new hypotheses, which could be more preferable than initial speculation: hypothesis: prediction of what will happen under speci c circumstances. Anthropologists may live with a group of people for a long time noting the things they do and reasons why they do it: social psychologists observe social situations in semiformal ways, note taking. Interviewing participants: observations tend to be misleading: conclusions should by tested by other methods. Archival research: research via evidence found in archives, census reports. Sports statistics: newspaper articles, databases containing historic and ethnographic info of people in diff cultures.
