- 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
expressing a relations between 2 variables
A 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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