1. 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.

2. Did We Know It All Along? Hindsight Bias Hindsight Bias –“I knew it all along”

3. Overconfidence Richard Goranson Study

4. Perceiving Order in Random Events Comes from our need to make sense out of the world –Coin flip –Poker hand

5. 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.

6. Critical Thinking –“Smart thinking” –Elements

7. The Scientific Method Theory Hypothesis Operational Definition Replication

8. The Scientific Method A good theory is useful if it:

9. Description The Case Study Case Study

10. Description Naturalistic Observation Naturalistic Observation

11. Description The Survey Survey Word effects Random sampling

12. Description The Survey Sampling

13. Module 06: Correlation and Experimentation

14. Correlation Correlation (correlation coefficient)Correlationcorrelation coefficient Scatterplot

15. Correlation

16. Correlation Correlation and Causation Correlation helps __________ –Does not __________________

17. Correlation Illusory Correlations

18. Experimentation Experiment

19. Experimentation Groups –Experimental GroupExperimental Group –Control GroupControl Group

20. Experimentation Randomly assigned –random samplerandom sample

21. Experimentation Blind (uninformed) –Single-Blind Procedure –Double-Blind ProcedureDouble-Blind Procedure Placebo Effect

22. Experimentation Independent and Dependent Variables Independent Variable –Confounding variableConfounding variable Dependent Variable Validity

23. Module 07: Statistical Reasoning in Everyday Life

24. The Need for Statistics Understanding basic statistics is beneficial for everyone

25. Descriptive Statistics Histogram –Scale labels

26. Descriptive Statistics Measures of Central Tendency Mean Median Mode Skewed distribution

27. Descriptive Statistics Measures of Variability Range Standard Deviation

28. Descriptive Statistics Measures of Variability Normal Curve

29. Inferential Statistics

30. Inferential Statistics When Is an Observed Difference Reliable? Inferential statistics

31. Inferential Statistics When Is a Difference Significant? Statistical significance

32. Module 08: Frequently Asked Questions About Psychology

33. Psychology Applied Can laboratory experiments illuminate everyday life? Does behavior depend on one’s culture and gender? –CultureCulture –Gender

34. Ethics in Research Ethics in animal research

35. Ethics in Research Ethics in human research –Informed consentInformed consent –DebriefingDebriefing