Psychology 2070A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: The Technique, Microsoft Onenote

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2070A/B
• Professor: Taylor Kohut

Document Summary

Hindsight bias: the tendency for people to exaggerate how much they could have predicted the outcome after knowing it has occurred. Theory: an organized set of principles that can be used to explain observed phenomena. Hypothesis: a testable statement or idea about the relationship between two or more variables. Diffusion of responsibility: the more people that see an emergency the less likely that any individual will intervene as they assume that someone else will have alerted authorities. Operational de nition: the precise speci cation of how variables are measured or manipulated. Observational method: the technique whereby a researcher observes people and systematically records measurements of their behaviour. The goal to describe what a particular group of people or type of behaviour is like. Ethnography: the method by which researchers attempt to understand a group or culture by observing it from the inside without imposing any preconceived notions they might have.