PSY 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Confirmation Bias, Henry Molaison, Feeling
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How the body & brain enable emotions, memories, etc. Focuses on how genes play a role in our psychological traits such as intelligence, personality, etc. Hindsight bias: tendency to believe after learning an outcome. Because intuition isn"t good enough have accurately predicted the outcome. Overconfidence: sometimes we think we know more than we actually do or. Perceiving order in random events we think we"re better at tasks than we actually are. We are likely to perceive random events as patterns and streaks. Hot streaks in gambling seeing the number 3 everywhere you. Confirmation bias: the tendency to search for information that confirms our go belief. In order to be scientific, you must try to find disconfirming evidence! Critical thinking (useful for lifeand the 1st major writing assignment) Definition: systematic investigation of a research question. Psychology as a science: uses scientific methodology to test predictions. Seeks to answer a question that doesn"t have a sufficient answer.
