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The limits of Intuition- When people get too overconfident with their first impressions because they recall other times where their gut feeling were right.
a student can cheat a lot and get away with it a lot because they have in the past but then they end up getting caught
Hindsight Bias- people acting like they knew something all along after they see the end result
watching a suspenseful movie and after acting like you knew what was going to happen the whole time
Overconfidence- when you think you're better at something when you aren't or at least doesn't meet standards
you have a test and you don't study because you assume you will pass it but end up failing it.
The Scientific Attitude - when you are open-minded to find new answers
when you're in a group of people and everyone has the same answer but you are able/willing to think outside of the box to find a different one
Scientific Method- the method to answer a scientific question in order
answering a question step by step
Case Study -the study of something
a psychologist can do a case study on why a person murders
Surveys- asking a number of question for people to personally answer
my leadership teacher will create a survey for us students to answer
Wording Effect- the way you word things can change the outcome
slight word change in something can change someones whole perspective/attitude/answer
Random Sampling -getting a variety of random people to have an unbias response
having random people take a survey for the most honest results
False Consensus- when you assume something and it ends up being the opposite of what you assume
you can assume someone likes david bowie like you but they actually hate him
Naturalistic Observations- where things are observed in their natural setting
someone can observe lions in their natural habitat
Correlation- finding relationships between things
a scientist can compare and relate humans to gorillas
Correlation Coefficient- the mathematical way of finding relationships between things
a math teacher could find relationships with his math work
Illusory Correlation - the belief that things relate even though they don't
i can get into an argument with my sibling and say rap is similar to gospel music, when it really isn't
Experimentation - a way of researching things to discover new finding or to find a answer
a person searching up something to get an answer
Experiments- a process of proving something or having validation
i can do a science experiment to find the ending result/ answer that I'm curious of
Double Blind Procedure - a procedure but the participants don't know which side they are apart of
if someone is testing something like a medicine or such, the person doesn't know if they have the placebo or not
Placebo Effects- giving someone a fake thing without their knowledge to see if it works
giving someone a fake pill
Experimental and Control Condition - experimental; people are receiving the real substance ow whatever it is they are experimenting with and control condition is giving out the placebo
you can give one person red cranberry juice and the other the red liquid medicine
Random Assignment- randomly selecting participants to groups to not have any bias
in an experiment you can use a random generator to choose who goes in each group
Independent and Dependent Variables- independent- doesn't need to rely on anything. dependent- is reliant
caffeine- independent dependent- growth
does caffeine cause stunted growth
Confounding Variables- other factors than can end up in a result also
there can be an experiment with two tea that both has caffeine and want to see which will work better but some people may get a lot of sleep anyway so they'll have more energy
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