PSY 1101 Chapter 1: Chapter 1 psychology

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Jenna Boulanger

Document Summary

Intuiion is an efortless, immediate, and automaic feeling or thought: It is not as accurate as we may think. Criical thinking refers to a more careful style of forming and evaluaing knowledge. Looks for hidden assumpions and puts their own aside; Skepicism: not acceping a fact" as true without challenging it; seeing if facts" can withstand atempts to disprove them. Humility: seeking the truth rather than trying to be right: hindsight bias: things seem more predictable when we look at them ater the fact. I knew it all along! : overconidence: we have a tendency of thinking that we know more than we actually do. Coincidence error: we have a tendency of perceiving order in random events. The dice must be ixed because you rolled three sixes in a row! : descripive research methods use systemaic and objecive observaion to describe behaviours and mental processes. Case study: in-depth study of one individual or a small group of individuals.