Expi Psy L2: Experimental Psychology and The Scientific Method

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

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

It is the general scientific principles that explain our universe and predict events

(a)  

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

What are the five major goals in psychology

(a)  

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

Systematically manipulate aspects of the setting with the intention of producing the specific behavior

• Experimental design

• Statistical Treatment

• Influence

• Experimental Psychology

Used to make inferences about the origins of psychological disorders, developmental processes, and the influence of life events

• Case studies

• Field studies

Observational studies of groups of people (or animals) in real-life settings

• Case studies

• Field studies

Knowledge of the conditions that reliably reproduce the occurrence of a behavior

• Experimental design

• Replication

• Correlational

• No correct answer

Answer explanation

right answer: Explain