Final

Question 1

5 types of evidence

Answer 1

common sense, anecdote, authority, reason or rationality, science

Question 2

4 dangers of common sense

Answer 2

• perceiving order in random events
• post hoc, ergo propter hoc reasoning (after this, therefore because of this)
• confirmation bias- cognitive tendency to see confirming evidence and to deny/distort inconsistent evidence.
• placebo effect- results caused by expectation alone

Question 3

Operational definition

Answer 3

defining a concept in terms of how you plan to measure that concept.
-Ex: her operational definition of happiness in this case is a given subject’s score on the test. – studying happiness

Question 4

Correlational Methods

Answer 4

what is related? Research involves measuring/observing relationship between two or more variables. Make a prediction, but cannot have cause.