PSYCO104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Pareidolia, Psyccritiques, Critical Thinking

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCO104
• Professor: Dyson,Benjamin

Document Summary

Contemporary psychology: conclusions drawn about human behaviour from rigorous data. "what is the evidence, and how good is it?" There can be multiple interpretations of the same information. The experience of patterns in random behaviour or in a random stimulus. Not just faces but other patterns as well. We might think we think we think rationally but we do not. Assuming a claim is correct or a produce / service is good because it is popular. Accepting a claim must be true because no-one has shown the claim to be false. Accepting either one of two extreme positions or accounts of a phenomenon. If a belief has been around for a long time, it does not mean it is valid. Accepting a claim because those in a higher power also endorse it. Not me if you think that none of these fallacies apply to you!