PSY 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Belief Perseverance, Confirmation Bias, Pseudoscience
18 Sep 2016
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Research paper- you can run the experiment (recommended) or pretend that you ran it (make up numbers to match hypothesis). Naive realism: the belief that we see the world precisely as it is. Not all common sense is wrong: hypothesis generation. Science is not a body of knowledge (e. g. chemistry or physics) Shows that more likely or not, that"s true) Has to be disprovable: or is just an educated guess . Good theory: backed up by testable research, multiple lines of evidence. Psychological pseudoscience: set of claims that seem scientific but lack defenses from confirmation bias and belief perseverance that characterize science. Confirmation bias: tendency to seek evidence that supports our already existing idea: neglecting/distorting contradicting evidence, e. g. All spiders bite people = get bitten by one spider. Belief perseverance: tendency to stick to our initial beliefs even when evidence is contradictory: no one wants to disbelieve their belief (feels bad)
