UWGB Psychology - Unit 1

"I knew it all along"

"I am sure I am correct"

"Searching for information to support a pre-existing belief"

a kind of thinking in which you question, analyse, interpret, evaluate and

make a judgement about what you read, hear, say, or write.

Set of principles, built on observations, and other verifiable facts,

that explains some phenomena and predicts it future behavior.

Testable prediction consistent with our theory

able to be proved to be false: a type of hypothesis.

All good science must be this.

a term that is used to describe the procedure of a study and the research variables,

100 degrees celsius -- the process of heating water at sea level until it is observed to boil

Trying it again using the same operational definitions of the

same concepts and procedures

the system used to assess the quality of a manuscript before it is published by another