Research & Best Practices Flashcards
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Why is a survey asking "Don't you remember the monocle?" poor research practice?
Answer: It is a leading question that biases responses
Leading questions suggest an answer and contaminate the responses.
What does a control group provide in a memory experiment?
Answer: A baseline for comparing the effect of the manipulation
Comparing against an unmanipulated group isolates the effect of the variable studied.
Why is a large number of people sharing the same false memory not proof the memory is true?
Answer: Shared cues and suggestions can produce the same error in many people
Common schemas and shared media can generate the same mistake in many people independently.
Which bias leads people to notice only evidence supporting their belief about an alternate reality?
Answer: Confirmation bias
Confirmation bias favors information that agrees with existing beliefs.
What is the value of preregistering a study?
Answer: It specifies hypotheses and methods before data collection to reduce biased analysis
Preregistration limits flexible analysis choices made after seeing the data.
Which principle suggests choosing the explanation requiring the fewest unsupported assumptions?
Answer: Occam's razor
Ordinary memory error needs fewer assumptions than parallel universes.
Why should researchers report how participants were recruited?
Answer: Recruitment, such as from a Mandela Effect forum, can skew a sample
Self-selected samples may over-represent believers and limit generalization.
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