AP Psych Unit 0 Vocab 1

Thinking that does not automatically accept arguments and conclusions, Rather it examines assumptions, appraises the source, discern hidden biases, evaluates evidence, and assesses conclusions

• creative thinking

• critical thinking

• emotional thinking

• intuitive thinking

the tendency to believe it, after learning an outcome, that one would have forseen it (Also known as I knew it all along phenomenon)

• Confirmation Bias

• Anchoring Effect

• Availability heuristic

• Hindsight bias

Scientific experts who evaluate a research articles theory, originality and accuracy

• Peer reviewers

• Editors

• Authors

• Publishers

an explanation using an integrated set of principles that organizes observations and predicts behaviors or events

• hypothesis

• law

• theory

• model

a testable prediction often implied by a theory

• hypothesis

• law

• conclusion

• observation