PSY 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Critical Thinking, Confirmation Bias, Hindsight Bias
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Who is considered to be the first psychological scientist? (wilhelm wundt) Can we always trust our intuition? (we cannot rely solely on common sense and intuition) Hindsight bias - i knew it all along! . Good ideas are like good inventions; once created, they seem obvious. As humans, we want to make sense of the world we live in. Therefore, we often perceive order or patterns in random events. Given enough random events, some unusual streaks will occur. Backmasking (playing a song backward and hearing something else) Curiosity underlies all science, but the important things is to let facts to speak for themselves. Critical thinking is key to becoming a successful scientist (in order to see if an idea holds true, we need to test it) A testable prediction that can be proved true or false. A theory is: an explanation meant to help us explain things by organizing observations and predicting behaviors or events.
