The Need for Psychological Research

Question 1

Hindsight Bias

Answer 1

“I knew it all along”

The tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen it.

Question 2

Critical Thinking

Answer 2

Does not blindly accept arguments and conclusions

Evaluates evidence.

Question 3

Overconfidence

Answer 3

When we are more confident than correct.

Question 4

Coincidence Error

Answer 4

Thinking something that happens has a connection to another thing.

Question 5

Theory

Answer 5

An explanation using an integrated set of principles that organizes observations and predicts behaviors or events.

Question 6

Hypothesis

Answer 6

Testable prediction - A relationship between two variables.

Question 7

Operational Definition

Answer 7

Describes how variables are measured and a statement of the exact procedures used in a research study

Gives numerical value

Question 8

Replication

Answer 8

Repeating the essence of a research study to see whether the basic finding generalizes to other participants and circumstances.