unit 2 ap psych

requires being skeptical but not cynical, open-minded but not gullible.

• Theory

• Critical Thinking

• Scientific Attitude

• Skepticism

·thinking that does not automatically accept arguments and conclusions. Rather it examines assumptions, appraises the sources, discerns hidden biases, evaluates evidence, and assesses conclusions.

• Critical thinking

• Hindsight Bias

• Replication

• Hypothesis

·the tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen it, I knew-it-all-along.

• Hindsight Bias

• Peer Reviewers

• Theory

• Overconfidence

·drives us to quick- rather than correct- thinking

• Critical Thinking

• Skepticism

• Falsifable

• Overconfidence

·a process for evaluating ideas with observation and analysis

• Scientific Attitude

• Survey

• Scientific Method

• Experiment

·scientific experts who evaluate a research article’s theory, originality, and accuracy.

• Control Group

• Population

• Survey

• Peer Reviewers

explains behaviors or events by offering ideas that organize observations. It summarizes and simplifies.

• Hypthesis

• Theory

• Falsifiable

• Case Study

a testable prediction, often implied by a theory. The falsifiability of a hypothesis is a sign of its scientific strength (can it be proven false?).

• Hypothesis

• Theory

• Falisifable

• Replication

the possibility that an idea, hypothesis, or theory can be disproven by observation or experiment

• Variable

• Hypothesis

• Theory

• Falsifiable

a carefully worded statement of the exact procedures used in a research study

• Critical Thinking

• Peer Reviewers

• Operational Definitions

• Self-Report Bias