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, Psychology the scientific study of mental processes and behavior.
Mental Processes Thoughts, feelings, and motives that each of us experiences privately but that
cannot be directly observed.
Behavior Any action that people can observe or measure
Confirmation Bias The tendency to favor information that confirms your existing beliefs.
Hindsight Bias The feeling after something happens that you knew it was going to happen.
Overconfidence Being more confident than correct; overestimating the accuracy of your beliefs.
Empirical Evidence Information from experiments or observations rather than theories.
Scientific Method A step-by-step method for conducting research.
Hypothesis A prediction that you can test through study and experimentation.
Falsifiable Something that can be proven wrong through tests.
Peer Review The process of having other experts examine your work to check its validity.
Replication Repeating a study to see if the same results are obtained.