Chapter 2: Sources of information Flashcards
1
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why can we not base beliefs solely on personal experience
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we have no comparison group
2
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comparison group
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enables us to compare what will happen both with and without the thing we are interested in
3
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confounds
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alternate explanations for an outcome
4
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confederate
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an actor playing a specific role for the experimenter
5
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probabilistic
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findings do not explain all cases, all of the time
6
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ways that intuition can be biased
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- being swayed by a good story
- being persuaded by what comes to mind easily (availability heuristic)
- failing to think about what we can’t see (present/present bias)
- focusing on the evidence we like best (confirmation bias/cherry picking information)
- bias about being biased (bias blind spot)
7
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empirical articles
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reports the results of an empirical research study
8
Q
review articles
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summarize and integrate all the published studies that have been done in one research area
9
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meta-analysis
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combines the results of many studies and gives a number that summarizes the effect size of a relationship
10
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components of an empirical journal article
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- abstract
- introduction
- methods
- results
- discussion
- references
