PSYO 1011 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Confirmation Bias, Subtle Body, Neurodevelopmental Disorder

• School: Dalhousie University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYO 1011
• Professor: Leanne Stevens,Shelley Adamo,Kevin Duffy,Jennifer Stamp

Document Summary

Intellectual honesty: admitting that you can be wrong. Be specific!: results must be reproducible, requires accuracy, objectivity, scepticism and open-mindedness, theories disproved not proved. What science is not (pseudoscience: lacks the cumulative progress seen in science, disregards real-world observations and established facts/results and contradicts what is already known, lacks internal scepticism. September 6, 2018: only vaguely explains how conclusions are reached, uses loose and distorted logic. No scientific evidence for: astrology, palmistry, esp, telekinesis, tarot card reading, telepathy. What do we need the scientific method: people regularly commit reasoning flaws, example: confirmation bias. Parents said that they had witnessed someone being trampled by a horse and die. Freud believed hans was in sexual competition with father (had seen father naked) and that was why he was scared of horses. Freud believed boy (cid:1684)cured(cid:1685) when the (cid:1684)true(cid:1685) reason was explained. September 6, 2018: human progress only happens with the scientific method.