PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Clickbait, Scientific Method, Falsifiability
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Six strategies that work for studying: spaced practice, interleaving, retrieval practice, elaboration, concrete examples, dual coding. Empirical (scientific) evidence that help individuals retain information over time; it comes from experiments using the scientific method. Intuition and gut feelings (shouldn"t be thrown out as unimportant or inaccurate; sometimes intuition can be wrong though) Authority religious leader, political figures establishing truth that form beliefs about the world; doesn"t matter who conducted specific study, if it"s done well, it"s valid. Cultural consensus/acceptance if we see other people doing something, we accept it as normal. Logic making logical conclusions based on data. One experiment, even well done, is very small and is a limited view of the conclusions; you should be confident in the type of claim being made. We"re all consumers of research, and are all bombarded with claims constantly (in commercials, clickbait ads)
