Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Notes - February 5, 2014

Research Methods


  • Hindsight Bias - the tendency to believe, after learning the outcome, that you knew it all along.
  • Overconfidence - we tend to think we know more than we do.
  • The Barnum Effect - tendency for people to accept very general or vague characteristics of themselves and take them to be accurate. 
  • Applied Research - clear and practical applications you can use.
  • Basic Research - explores questions that you may be curious about, but not intended to be immediately used.
  • Hypothesis - expresses relationship between two variables.
  • Variable - anything that can vary among participants in a study.
  • Independent Variable - what is being manipulated
  • Dependent Variable - what is measured in the experiment
  • Operational Definition - explain what you mean in your thesis. How will the variables be measured in 'real life' terms.

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