PSYB01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Disfigurement, Face Transplant, Internal Validity
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Week 2 lecture #2 monday, may 11, 2015. Review from last week: 7 limitations of personal experience Methods we use in day to day world and in some other disciplines subject to numerous limitations. Confirmation bias/discounting problems, inferences based on very little data, influence of exceptation, overly (openly ?) mind on intuition, influence of authority figure, our beliefs in pleasant truth only. Did you make inferences on someone based on your first encounter, it might not be pleasant, but could be due to a tragic event. Provides an objective set of rules for gathering, evaluating, and reporting information . Conclusions about the nature of the world based on collection and evaluation of data that is evaluated in a systematic way. Instead of being based on intuition and knowledge, we have a process which we follow which data is collected, analyzed and interpreted. Structure or a framework for all the research that is current on a particular research or problem.
