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Psychology involves studying the mind at one specific level of explanation.
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Science is a body of knowledge consisting of all the findings that scientists have discovered.
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Scientific experiments work by trying to test the predictions of researchers' theories.
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In general, scientists are just as prone to confirmation bias as non-scientists.
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A scientific hypothesis is essentially the same thing as a scientific theory, only more specific in its predictions.
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Most forms of psychotherapy have been tested.
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According to terror management theory, our fears of death are an important reason for pseudoscientific beliefs.
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Humans' tendency to see patterns in random data in entirely maladaptive.
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A logical fallacy has occured whenever we arrive at false conclusions.
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Research on the bias blind spot implies that we often do not perceive biases in people to whom we are emotionally close.
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Scientific scepticism requires a willingness to keep an open mind to all claims.
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When evaluating a psychological claim, we should keep in mind other possible explanations for it.
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Occam's razor implies that the simpler of two explanations is the true one.
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A risky prediction is one that stands a good chance of being wrong if the theory generating it is also wrong.
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When psychological findings are replicated, it is especially important that the replications be conducted by the same team of investigators.
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Behaviourism focuses on discovering the general laws of learning in animals rather than humans
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Cognitive psychologists argue that psychological theories must account for how people interpret the meaning of the events which act as rewards and punishments.
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Advocates of determinism believe that free will is an illusion.
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Studying discrimination in the lab is applied research, while investigating which colour of motor vehicle is involved in fewest traffic accidents is basic research.
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Achievement tests such as the HSC do no better than chance at predicting students' performance at university.