Module 2: How Psychologists Ask and Answer Everyday Questions

Question 1

types of intuition overestimation

Answer 1

hindsight bias, overconfidence, perceiving patterns in random events

Question 2

scientific method

Answer 2

theory, hypothesis, operational definition, replication

Question 3

descriptive research

Answer 3

systematic, objective observation of people

Question 4

case study

Answer 4

examines one individual, cannot be used to generalize, poses interesting questions

Question 5

naturalistic observation

Answer 5

records behavior in natural environment (sitting and watching), describes doesn’t explain behavior

Question 6

for best results

Answer 6

random sampling, good wording, random assignment

Question 7

positive correlation

Answer 7

indicates direct relationship, moving in the same direction

Question 8

negative correlation

Answer 8

indicates an inverse relationship, one increases other decreases

Question 9

correlation coefficient

Answer 9

a statistical measure of how closely 2 things vary and how well one predicts the other

Question 10

variable

Answer 10

anything that can vary, is feasible, and ethical to measure

Question 11

scatterplot

Answer 11

graphed cluster of dots representing slope and amount of scatter

Question 12

illusory correlation

Answer 12

perception of relationship between 2 variables when one doesn’t exist

Question 13

regression towards the mean

Answer 13

tendency for extremes towards the average

Question 14

double-blind procedure

Answer 14

administrator and participant don’t know which group is receiving treatment

Question 15

types of variables

Answer 15

independent, confounding, dependent