Scientific Skepticism - ideas must be evaluated on the basis of careful logic and results
from scientific investigations
Intuition (folk wisdom/common sense) - accept based on personal experience or
anecdote
Intuition (illusory correlations) - focussing on two events that stand out and occur
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Psyc h 217 (Midterm 1) Exam -Questions with Correct Answers/ 100% pass/ Expert Verified Scientific Skepticism - ✔✔ideas must be evaluated on the basis of careful logic and results from scientific investigations Intuition (folk wisdom/common sense) - ✔✔acce pt based on personal experience or anecdote Intuition (illusory correlations) - ✔✔focussing on two events that stand out and occur together Pseudoscience - ✔✔scientific terms to substantiate claims without using scientific data Systematic empiricism - ✔✔gathering information with structured observations Peer review - ✔✔increases likelihood that only the most rigorous research is published replicable - ✔✔being able to repeat a method Falsifiability - ✔✔can either be supported or refuted Behaviourism - ✔✔all behaviour can be studied by stimulus -response relations Cognitivism - ✔✔organism processes stimulus with thought Covariation of cause and effect - ✔✔when the cause is present, the effect occurs, when the cause is not present the effect does not oc cur Elimination of alternative explanations - ✔✔removing any explanation you found the result for that wasn't what you were looking for Basic research - ✔✔studies which aim to answer fundamental questions about the nature of behaviour Applied research - ✔✔studies conducted to address practical problems Program evaluation - ✔✔evaluates new programs of the government Theory - ✔✔organize & explains knowledge; generates new knowledge Hypothesis - ✔✔tentative statement about what might be true Prediction - ✔✔specific statement about the expected outcome of an experiment, given your precise method Serendipity - ✔✔Fortunate mistakes Parsimony - ✔✔Least complex theory is most desirable Method - ✔✔details on how the study was conducted Abstract - ✔✔Summarizes and explains study, but doesn't include much from the discussion Introduction - ✔✔section of an article that explains problem under investigation Discussion - ✔✔discusses various perspectives and gives explainations of result Resul ts - ✔✔Presents findings using narrative form, statistical, and table/graph form
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