PSY220H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Hindsight Bias, Fraternities And Sororities, Homicide
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Hindsight bias: people"s tendency to be overconfident about whether they could have predicted a given outcome. Hypotheses: predictions about what will happen under particular circumstances; often broader theories about behaviour. Theory: body of related propositions intended to describe some aspect of the world. Charles darwin, observer of finches in the galapagos islands led to natural selection. Participant observation: involves observing some phenomenon at close range; used by psychologists and anthropologists. Conducted without ever leaving a library or laptop. Databases containing ethnographic descriptions of people in different cultures. Nisbett (1993) studied fbi reports of homicide: found they were common in the south than in the north, most common type of homicides in the south they found were barroom quarrels or lover"s dispute. Most common type of study in social psychology. Asking people questions using either interviews or written questionnaires. Random sample: everyone in the population is given an equal chance of being chosen.
