Management and Organizational Studies 2320A/B Chapter 2: Chapter 2 - PSYCH2070

• School: Western University
• Department: Management and Organizational Studies
• Course: Management and Organizational Studies 2320A/B
• Professor: John White

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Hindsight bias: the tendency for people to exaggerate how much they could have predicted the outcome after knowing that it occurred: trick is to predict what will happen in an experiment before you know how it turns out. Theory: an organized set of principles that can be used to explain observed phenomena. Hypothesis: a testable statement or idea about the relationship between 2 or more variables. Katy genovese murder in alley bystanders did not do anything: one theory is that of the lifestyle a big-city life breeds, diffusion of responsibility: neighbours might have assumed that somebody else had called the police. To test a hypothesis researcher must collect data. Operational definition: the precise specification of how variables are measured or manipulated. Three ways of measuring data: observational method, correlational method, experimental method. Is the chief method of cultural anthropology: the study of human cultures and societies.