PSYC207 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-4: Institutional Review Board, Google Scholar, Psycinfo
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Evidence based treatments: therapies that are supported by research. Comparison group: enables us to compare what would happen both with and without the thing we are interested in (ex: both with and without tanning beds) Confounds: alternative explanations for an outcome (also means confused) Confederate: an actor playing a specific role for the experimenter. Probabilistic: its findings are not expected to explain all cases all of the time. Availability heuristic: things that pop up easily in our mind tend to guide our thinking. Present/present bias: we often fail to look for absences it is easy to notice what is present. Confirmatory hypothesis testing: the tendency to ask only the questions that will lead to the expected answer. Bias blind spot: the belief that we are unlikely to fall prey to the cognitive biases previously described. Empirical journal articles: a scholarly article that reports for the first time the results of a research study.
