Unit 0 Key Terms Review Flashcards

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Cultural norms

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Shared expectations and rules guiding behavior of people within social groups.

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Confirmation bias

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Tendency to search for, interpret, and remember information that confirms one's preconceptions.

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Hindsight bias

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The inclination to see events as having been predictable after they have already occurred.

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Overconfidence

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Excessive confidence in one's own answers or abilities.

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Independent variables

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Variables that are manipulated to determine their effect on dependent variables.

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Confounding variables

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External variables that can affect the outcome of an experiment, potentially skewing results.

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Dependent variables

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Variables that are measured in an experiment to see if they are affected by independent variables.

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Random assignment

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Assigning participants to experimental and control groups by chance, minimizing preexisting differences.

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Case study

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An in-depth analysis of an individual, group, or event to explore causation.

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Correlation

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A measure of the relationship between two variables.