PSYC1003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Scientific Method, Critical Thinking, American Psychological Association
Document Summary
People turn to psychology in many ways and for many different reasons. The trick, though, is to distinguish fact from opinion. Many people and world leaders believe in their instincts and go by their gut feeling . People tend to repeatedly over-estimate their ability to go by gut feelings. People often have hindsight bias looking back in time makes an event seem as though it were inevitable to happen. This is like saying, i knew it all along, or, hindsight is 20-20. After something happens, it just seems so obvious. What"s more, people tend to believe that they actually saw it coming. People can have common sense in opposite or conflicting directions. Psychological studies often oppose common sense and our body determines much about what we do and feel. Overconfidence occurs when we are more confident that we know something than we are correct. An example study had people unscramble jumbled words.
