PSY 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Pareidolia, Apophenia, Opportunity Cost
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We are prone to trusting our common sense because of . Scienti c theory : explanation for a large number of ndings in the natural world: ties multiple ndings into one package, good theories generate testable predictions (hypothesis) Are a theory : explains just one event, educated guess (i. e. big bang theory - cant be proven but evidence lines up) Set of claims that seem scienti c but are not. Lack defences from con rmation bias and belief perseverance. After their daughters passing the parents stuck to their belief that taking her off is not what killed her and they made a good choice: peoples argument : don"t confuse me with the facts . Warning signs for pseudoscience : exaggerated claims - for example advertisements that say : take this one pill and you"ll loose. If it goes along with what we want then we believe it, if it doesn"t we ignore it.