PSYB01H3 Lecture Notes - Psy, Teddy Bear, Nocebo
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Textbook cozby introduction tricounsil policy statement 2nd edition (read summary) term- 25% final: 40% Midterm: 35% july 22 due turn it in and bring a hardcopy. Opinions and ideas -> don"t discard science -> tool critical thinking. Her first friend was a teddy bear. She is shy when meeting ppl for first time. She likes to gossip with her friends. She likes to meet and talk to people. We believe something to be true about a group of ppl so we look for those things we already know beliefs: prejudice, racism, tendency (opinion) inappropriate inferences may be based on little data. We have very little information i. e. raising dogs (old way) inferences based on very little data. Nocebo effect context matters absent baserates and comparisons comparison groups pleasant truths: Need to believe both pleasant and unpleasant truth tend to believe both pleasant truths and pleasant falsehoods overreliance on intuition.
