Week 1 Flashcards
What is anecdotal evidence?
A piece of biased evidence, usually drawn from personal experience, used to support a conclusion that may or may not be correct.
What is Causality?
In research, the determination that one variable causes—is responsible for—an effect.
What is Correlation?
In statistics, the measure of relatedness of two or more variables.
What is data?
In research, information systematically collected for analysis and interpretation.
What is deductive reasoning?
A form of reasoning in which a given premise determines the interpretation of specific observations (e.g., All birds have feathers; since a duck is a bird, it has feathers).
What is a type I error?
In statistics, the error of rejecting the null hypothesis when it is true. (False positive)
What is a type II error?
In statistics, the error of failing to reject the null hypothesis when it is false. (False negative)
What is behaviorism?
The study of behavior.
What is Cognitive psychology?
The study of mental processes.
What is introspection?
The study of mental processes.
What is inductive reasoning?
Drawing conclusions by going from the specific to the general.
Diary method
Complete a questionnaire about their thoughts, feelings and behaviour at the end of the day.
Day reconstruction method
Describe their experiences and behaviour of a given day upon a systemic reconstruction on the following day.
Electronically activated recorder
Wear a small portable audio recorder that intermittently records snippets of ambient sounds around them.
Linguistics analyses
Automatically extracts grammatical and psychological information from a text by counting word frequencies.
