Category: Science
Created by: tim.zhaotianqi
Number of Blossarys: 40
Degree to which an experiment absorbs and involves its participants to a certain stimulate. Eg: electric shock.
Studies that seek clues to cause- effect relationships by manipulating one or more factors (independent variables) while controlling others (holding them constant).
The way a question or an issue is posed; framing can influence people’s decisions and expressed opinions. Eg: 30% fat vs 70% leans.
The tendency to exaggerate, after learning an outcome, one’s ability to have foreseen it. Also known as the I-knew-it-all-along phenomenon. Important for test preparation.
The illusion that our concealed emotions leak out and can be easily read by others.
The human tendency to underestimate the speed and the strength of the “psychological immune system”, which enables emotional recovery and resilience after bad things happen.
These are variables that are hypothesized to cause an effect. Participants are usually randomly assigned to the various levels of the Independent Variable.