Social Psychology - answer✔The scientific study of how people's thoughts, feelings, and
behaviors, are affected by the actual or imagined presence of others
Hindsight Bias - answer✔The tendency to overestimate, after learning an outcome, one's ability
to have foreseen the outcome
Social Desirability Bias - answer✔A tendency to give socially approved answers to questions
about oneself.
Theory - answer✔Organize, explain, and predict observable events
Hypothesis - answer✔a prediction of what we think will happen based on theory
Random sample - answer✔A sample in which each member of the population has an equal
chance of being in the sample
Operational definition - answer✔Describe a concept in terms of observable and measureable
qualities
Observational/field research - answer✔Research done in natural, real-life settings outside the
laboratory
Correlational research - answer✔The study of the naturally occurring relationships among
variables
Experimental research - answer✔Studies that seek clues to cause-effect relationships by
manipulating one or more factors (independent variables) while controlling others (holding them
constant)
Independent variable - answer✔The experimental factor that a researcher manipulates
Dependent Variable - answer✔The variable being measured, so called because it may depend
on manipulations of the independent variable
Random assignment - answer✔The process of assigning participants to the conditions of an
experiment such that all persons have the same chance of being in a given condition
Confound - answer✔Extraneous variable that is not part of the study that may influence the
dependent variable in a systematic way
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