Psych Vocabulary Quiz - 2

The tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen it.

• sampling bias

• hindsight bias

• the random effect bias

• single blind procedure

The tendency to believe we know more than we do best illustrates

• naturalistic observation

• the placebo effect

• overconfidence

• hindsight bias

Critical thinking is _________thinking.

a statement that attempts to explain why something is the way it is and happens the way it does

• construct

• hypothesis

• law

• theory

If I want to gather how all students are feeling about remote learning so far, which method would make the most sense?

• Experimental

• Naturalistic observation

• Case study

• Survey

An individual suffered a major traumatic brain injury after getting in a bad accident at work. If a psychologist wants to know the effects of the trauma, what method would be best?

• Naturalistic observation

• Case study

• Experimental research

• Survey

This refers to the method of gaining enough participants that represent various backgrounds of people, allowing researchers to generalize results to the larger population:

• Full sampling

• Double-blind placebo experiment

• Random sampling

• Naturalistic study

A ________ is a tentative and testable statement about the relationship between two or more variables

• Hypothesis

• fact

• correlation

• deception

A type of observation conducted in the participants' normal environment without interference from the researchers.

• Controlled observation

• Naturalistic observation

A testable prediction

• control group

• hypothesis

• theory

• survey