PSYCO104 Lecture Notes - Popular Psychology, Pseudoscience

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCO104
• Professor: Blaine Mullins

Document Summary

Common sense: common sense: good & bad many things look different than they actually are. Our beliefs shape how we see the world. Naive realism: the belief that we see the world the way that it is: science: an approach to evidence. > willingness to share our results ex. peer review: disinterestedness. > being objective when evaluating evidence: humility. > when we admit that we can be wrong: pseudoscience: set of claims that sound scientific but aren t. Not that people consider pseudoscientific claims, it s their conviction that is worrisome: popular psychology: the way psychology is presented in popular culture (& media esp. ) Problem: many of scientific claims in pop-psychology are not tested. By understanding how science works psychology popular pseudosci psychology from textbook (pg. Ancient greeks went to 2 different doctors: dogmatists (meaning belief ) best way to understand illness: develop theories about body s functions empiricists (meaning experience ) best way to understand illness: observe sick people.