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Unit 02 - Overview The Need for Psychological Science The Scientific Method and Description Correlation and Experimentation Statistical Reasoning in Everyday Life Frequently Asked Questions About PsychologyFrequently Asked Questions About Psychology Click on the any of the above hyperlinks to go to that section in the presentation.
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Did We Know It All Along? Hindsight Bias Hindsight Bias –“I knew it all along”
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Overconfidence Richard Goranson Study
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Perceiving Order in Random Events Comes from our need to make sense out of the world –Coin flip –Poker hand
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The Scientific Attitude: Curious, Skeptical and Humble Three main components Hindsight bias, overconfidence and our tendency to perceive patters in random events often lead us to overestimate our intuition.
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Critical Thinking –“Smart thinking” –Elements
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The Scientific Method Theory Hypothesis Operational Definition Replication
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The Scientific Method A good theory is useful if it:
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Description The Case Study Case Study
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Description Naturalistic Observation Naturalistic Observation
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Description The Survey Survey Word effects Random sampling
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Description The Survey Sampling
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Module 06: Correlation and Experimentation
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Correlation Correlation (correlation coefficient)Correlationcorrelation coefficient Scatterplot
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Correlation
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Correlation Correlation and Causation Correlation helps __________ –Does not __________________
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Correlation Illusory Correlations
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Experimentation Experiment
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Experimentation Groups –Experimental GroupExperimental Group –Control GroupControl Group
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Experimentation Randomly assigned –random samplerandom sample
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Experimentation Blind (uninformed) –Single-Blind Procedure –Double-Blind ProcedureDouble-Blind Procedure Placebo Effect
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Experimentation Independent and Dependent Variables Independent Variable –Confounding variableConfounding variable Dependent Variable Validity
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Module 07: Statistical Reasoning in Everyday Life
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The Need for Statistics Understanding basic statistics is beneficial for everyone
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Descriptive Statistics Histogram –Scale labels
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Descriptive Statistics Measures of Central Tendency Mean Median Mode Skewed distribution
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Descriptive Statistics Measures of Variability Range Standard Deviation
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Descriptive Statistics Measures of Variability Normal Curve
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Inferential Statistics
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Inferential Statistics When Is an Observed Difference Reliable? Inferential statistics
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Inferential Statistics When Is a Difference Significant? Statistical significance
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Module 08: Frequently Asked Questions About Psychology
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Psychology Applied Can laboratory experiments illuminate everyday life? Does behavior depend on one’s culture and gender? –CultureCulture –Gender
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Ethics in Research Ethics in animal research
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Ethics in Research Ethics in human research –Informed consentInformed consent –DebriefingDebriefing
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