PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Dependent And Independent Variables, Alcohol By Volume, High High

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Anneke Olthof

Document Summary

This question steered psychology away from studying the brain. The focus of psychology is based on observable behaviour: our natural thinking style can fail! If this was all we were relying on it would net be very scientific: eg: Hindsight bias a finding may seem obvious after the fact. You can come up with examples to support whatever belief you have. Overconfidence error we overestimate how accurate and skilled we are. Mistakenly perceiving order in random events makes us think we can make predictions from a random series. We can see things in random events like the clouds. We mistakenly think we can predict into the future and we can"t. Using science makes us objective and accurate. Science gets us away from faulty thinking. Objective: we want to just measure the thing and not let anything about us interfere. Accurate: we want the thing to actually represent what is correct.