PSY 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Psychological Science, The Need, Histogram

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Najwa Haddad

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The need for psychological science: why? a. i. Limits of common sense => doesn"t generate knowledge, results of experience a. iii. Overconfidence => tendency to over estimate our accuracy of knowledge (ex: tetlock (researcher)) a. iv. Illusory correlation (ex: i"m thinking about a friend and then i suddenly see that friend i was thinking about) a. iv. 1. Percieving order in random events: the scientific attidue b. i. Be a critical thinker: the scientific method c. i. Tentative statement about relation b/w 2 variables c. iv. Optimism (not od) = seeing the glass full c. iv. 2. Od = obtaining a score of 50 above the haddad optimism scale c. v. replication c. vi. Types of research studies: descriptive research a. i. Case study (form of descriptive research very in depth) a. ii. 1. Can give hints and clues for normal behaviour a. ii. 2. Can"t draw general conclusion because it"s too small a. ii. 2. b. Definition: descriptive and correlation research, reach large # of people and ask specific questions about attitude, behaviour, etc. a. ii. 3. b.