Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Methods to Research


    • Barnum Effect
    • people's tendency to believe that vague, stock descriptions about personality actually fits them

Hindsight Bias
    • the tendency to believe that after knowing the outcome, you tend to believe you knew it all along.


Overconfidence
We tend to think we know more than we actually do



Applied vs. Basic Research



Applied: has clear practical applications that you can use

Basic: explores questions that you may be curious about, but not intended to be immediately used.

Operational Definitions
  • how the variable will be measure in real life terms
Hypothesis
expressing a relations between 2 variables 


variable is anything that can vary among participants in a study

Independent Variable: the changing variable; the one that is being manipulated
Dependent Variable: the responding variable; the one that is being measured

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