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Assignment - Chapter Summary Questions
Chapter Learning Goals -
1. Describe why experience usually has no comparison group and usually has confounds.
2. Describe at least five ways intuition is biased.
3. Be cautious about accepting the conclusions of authority figures (especially conclusions that are not based on research).
4. Explain the advantages of research over intuition and experience.
5. Find legitimate research-based information in PsycINFO and other sources.
6. List the forms that research-based information can take: empirical journal articles, review journal articles, books, and chapters in edited books.
7. Read empirical journal articles with a purpose. 8. Distinguish between legitimate journalism and disinformation in popular media.
Directions - Use the chapter reviews to help guide you through the reading. As you read, stop to paraphrase the definition of each of the following key terms.
After you are done reading, answer the five review questions below.
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Chapter Two Review
Define each of the terms. Write a definition in your own words.
1. Comparison Group
2. Confound
3. Confederate
4. Probabilistic
5. Availability Heuristic
6. Present/Presen Bia
7. Confirmation Bias
8. Bias Blind Spot
9. Empirical Journal Article
10. Review Journal Article
11. Meta-analysis
12. Effect Size
13. Paywalled
14. Open Access
15. Disinformation
Review Questions -
1. What does it mean to say that research is probabilistic?
2. Jenna has concluded that her new white noise machine helped her children fall asleep last night? What is she basing this conclusion on? Can you think of any confounds?
3. Name some reliable sources for psychological studies.
4. Visit snopes to find an example of disinformation (check the "hot 50" list). What might be the motive behind it? Provocation, passion, propaganda, punking or profit?