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UH Manoa PSY100 Masuda Exam 1 Study Guide with Complete Solutions
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©PREP4EXAMS@2024 [REAL EXAM DUMPS] Friday, July 19, 2024 6:13 AMUH Manoa PSY100 Masuda Exam 1 Study
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psychological science - ✔️✔️the study, through research, of mind, brain, and behavior
hindsight bias - ✔️✔️accepting after-the-fact explanations; reinterpreting old evidence to make
sense of an unexpected outcome
confirmation bias - ✔️✔️ignoring or downplaying evidence that is inconsistent with one's beliefs
stream of consciousness - ✔️✔️a phrase coined by William James to describe each person's
continuous series of ever-changing thoughts
localization of function - ✔️✔️the idea that various brain regions have particular functions
personality psychology - ✔️✔️the study of enduring characteristics that people display over time
and across circumstances
nature/nurture debate - ✔️✔️the arguments concerning whether psychological characteristics are
biologically innate or acquired through education, experience, and culture
descriptive research - ✔️✔️research designed to observe behavior and describe that behavior
systematically and objectively
experimental research - ✔️✔️research designed to discover causal relationships between variables
correlational research - ✔️✔️research designed to describe and predict how variables are naturally
related in the real world, without any attempt by the researcher to alter them or assign causation
between them
Law of Parsimony - ✔️✔️Occam's Razor, the idea that good theories tend toward simplicity
reliability - ✔️✔️the degree to which a measure is stable and consistent over time
confound - ✔️✔️anything that affects a dependent variable and may unintentionally vary between
the experimental conditions of a study
replication - ✔️✔️repetition of a research study to confirm or contradict the results
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