The scientific attitude requires an open-minded humility because it involves a willingness to...
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recognize the errors in our own ideas.
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Giving half the members of a group some purported psychological finding and the other half an opposite result is an easy way to demonstrate the impact of...
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hindsight bias.
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Which of the following is most likely to inhibit critical thinking?
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Overconfidence
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By testing their predictions with the observational method of science, psychologists are using...
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an empirical approach.
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Three key attitudes of scientific inquiry are...
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curiosity, skepticism, and humility.
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If someone were to flip a coin six times, which sequence of heads (H) and tails (T) would be most likely?
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All sequences would be equally likely.
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A questioning attitude regarding psychologists' assumptions and hidden values best illustrates...
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critical thinking.
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The simplified reality to laboratory experiments is most helpful in enabling psychologists to...
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develop general principles that help explain behavior.
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The enduring traditions, attitudes, and behaviors shared by a large group of people constitutes their...
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culture.
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Psychologists study animals because...
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similar processes often underlie animal and human behavior.
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The first major issue that emerges in debates over experimenting on animals centers around the...
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ethics of placing the well-being of humans above that of animals.
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Potential research participants are told enough about an upcoming study to enable them to choose whether they wish to participate. This illustrates the practice of seeking...
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informed consent.
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After an experiment, research participants are told its purpose and about any deception they may have experience. This is called...
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debriefing.
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Psychologists' personal values and goals...
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can bias their observations and interpretations.
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Social psychology research of Mamie and Kenneth Clark showed that most African-American children of the late 1940s chose dolls of white color rather than dark color. This research indicated ______________.
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internalized anti-black prejudice.
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