
Expi Psy L2: Experimental Psychology and The Scientific Method
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Cognitive bias that favors information that confirms your previously existing beliefs
Influence bias
Good Thinking
Confirmation bias
Laws
Answer explanation
We believe we know something, we tend to overlook instances that might disconfirm our beliefs, and we seek confirmatory instances of behavior
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
College students often overestimate how quickly they can finish writing a paper and are forced to pull an all-nighter when they realize it takes longer than expected.
Managing Variability
Confirmation bias
Overconfidence bias
Answer explanation
Our predictions, guesses, and explanations tend to feel much more correct than they actually are, and the more data we have available, the more confidence we have in our judgments about behavior
3.
FILL IN THE BLANK QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
It is the general scientific principles that explain our universe and predict events
(a)
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
It organized and rational thought, characterized by open-mindedness, objectivity, and parsimony; a principal tool of the scientific method
Theory
Good Thinking
Replication
Explain
Answer explanation
Replication - Process of repeating research procedures to verify that the outcome will be the same as before; principal tool of the scientific method
Explain - Knowledge of the conditions that reliably reproduce the occurrence of a behavior
5.
FILL IN THE BLANK QUESTION
1 min • 5 pts
What are the five major goals in psychology
(a)
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
It is the goal of scientific psychology
Provides framework
To understand why people think and act as they do
To lessen the hypotheses
Offers systematic and objective procedure to gather information
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Systematically manipulate aspects of the setting with the intention of producing the specific behavior
Experimental design
Statistical Treatment
Influence
Experimental Psychology
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