Lecture 2 Flashcards
Basic psychology
Learning information, does not pertain to a real world scenario
Applied psychology
Taking learned information and applying it to a real world scenario
Reciprocal determinism
we influence others and others influence us
Naive realism
the world is exactly how you see it
Parsimony
Come up with the simplest explanation for the most phenomena
Hindsight bias
If you know the end result, you believe you knew the right answer all along
Post-truth
Personal facts and beliefs matter more than real facts and evidence
Roadblocks to scientific thinking
Hindsight bias, overconfidence, perceiving patterns, post-truth, repetition, powerful examples
Operational definition
Ways to describe abstract concepts in ways that are testable
Quasi-experiment
variable can’t be manipulated or randomly assigned, can only be used to determine relationships
Age-based quasi-experiment
Cross sectional - two groups of different age groups
Longitudinal - one group across time
Field study
Experiment in more naturalistic environment
Naturalistic observation
Observation in natural environment
Case study
Looking at a single person experiencing something unusual in order to understand phenomena
Types of research
Experiment, quasi, field study, naturalistic observation, case study, survey
Subjects
Between - each participant is only exposed to one level of variable
Within - each participant is exposed to all levels of variable
