Chapter 2 - Sources of information: why research is bes and how to find it Flashcards
Term for the idea that things that pop up easily in our mind tend to guide our thinking.
Availability Heuristic
The ______________ leads us to overestimate events, such as how frequently people encounter red lights or die in shark attacks.
Availability heuristic
A name for our failure to consider appropriate comparison groups.
Present/present bias
The tendency to look only at information that agrees with what we already believe.
Confirmation bias.
Using your personal thoughts to bias your research
Intuition bias
The belief that we are unlikely to fall prey to the other biases
Bias blind spot
Can you name all five of the biases?
Intuition, availability heuristic, present/present bias, confirmation bias, bias blind spot.
When would it be sensible to accept the conclusions of authority figures? When might it not?
When authorities base their conclusions on well conducted research.
What kind of article reports, for the first time, the results of an (empirical) research study. They contain details about the study’s method, the statistical tests used, and the results of the study.
Empirical journal articles.
What kind of article provides a summary of all the published studies that have been done in one research area?
Review journal articles.
What kind of analysis combines the results of many studies and gives a number that summarizes the magnitude, or the effect size, of a relationship?
Meta-analysis
What is an edited book?
A collections of chapters on a common topic; each chapter is written by a different contributor.
What is a concise summary of an article, about 120 words long. It briefly describes the study’s hypotheses, method, and major results?
Abstract
Which part of a journal article is the first section of the regular text and explains the topic of the study?
Introduction
Which section of a journal articles explains in detail how the researchers conducted their study?
Method
