PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Hindsight Bias, Cognitive Neuroscience, Psyccritiques
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Contemporary psychology: psychology: science of behavior and mental processes, cognitive psychology: study of mental processes, cognitive neuroscience: interdisciplinary study of the brain activity linked with cognition. Roadblocks to critical thinking: hindsight bias: learning an outcome that you once said you have foreseen, overconfidence error: tendency to think we know more than we do. Donny-kroger effect: occurs when the incompetent people not only fail to realize their incompetence, but consider themselves much more competent than everyone else: superstitions: perceiving order in random events. Naturalistic observation observing the behavior of human tendencies and interactions no control: surveys, online questionnaire. Surveys and interviews ask the same question but a different methodology. Random sample: every individual in a population has an equal chance of being included. Population examples: all high schools in maryland, all boys and girls in a population, all candy. Positive correlation: one variable increases and so does the other. Correlation method: extent to which two factors vary together.
