Social Psychology
-:- The scientific study of how people's thoughts, feelings, and
behaviors, are affected by the actual or imagined presence of others
Hindsight Bias
-:- The tendency to overestimate, after learning an outcome, one's
ability to have foreseen the outcome
Social Desirabilit...
✓ -:- A sample in which each member of the population has an equal
chance of being in the sample
Operational definition
✓ -:- Describe a concept in terms of observable and measureable qualities
Observational/field research
✓ -:- Research done in natural, real-life settings outside the laboratory
Correlational research
✓ -:- The study of the naturally occurring relationships among variables
Experimental research
✓ -:- Studies that seek clues to cause-effect relationships by manipulating
one or more factors (independent variables) while controlling others
(holding them constant)
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