<p>RESEARCH STRATEGIES: HOW PSYCHOLOGISTS ASK AND ANSWER QUESTIONS</p><p>Identify two pitfalls in thinking that make intuition and common sense untrustworthy.</p><p>Discuss the attitudes that characterize scientific inquiry, and explain the nature of critical thinking.</p><p>Explain the importance of theories, hypotheses, operational definitions, and replication of research in psychology.</p><p>Discuss the descriptive research strategies.</p><p>Discuss the limitations and possible pitfalls of descriptive research.</p><p>Describe the types of correlation, and discuss why correlation enables prediction by not explanation.</p><p>Explain the nature and significance of illusory correlations.</p><p>Describe the nature and advantages of experimentation.</p><p>Discuss the importance of random assignment and control techniques in research. Explain at least one advantage of the experiment as a research stragegy.</p><p>Discuss questions regarding the artificiality of experimentation and whether psychological principles are culture or gender-free.</p><p>Explain why psychologists study animals and discuss the ethics of experimentation.</p><p>Describe how psychologists’ values influence their work and discuss whether psychology is potentially dangerous.</p><p>Describe the goals of the ethical guidelines for psychological research.</p><p>Provide a brief definition of the following KEY TERMS:</p><p>Hindsight bias</p><p>Critical thinking</p><p>Theory</p><p>Hypothesis</p><p>Operational definition</p><p>Replication</p><p>Case study</p><p>Survey</p><p>Population</p><p>Random sample</p><p>Naturalistic observation</p><p>Correlation coefficient Illusory correlation</p><p>Experiment</p><p>Placebo</p><p>Double-blind procedure</p><p>Placebo effect</p><p>Experimental condition</p><p>Control condition</p><p>Random assignment</p><p>Independent variable</p><p>Dependent variable</p><p>Culture</p>