PSYC 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Confirmation Bias
17 Sep 2016
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Finding results that are specific to a certain subject and how it pertains to the situation. Question what you already know and challenging. Certain beliefs should be based on evidence; good reason s to why it"s true. Maintaining why it is true -> uncertainty. Tools to use on how to be skeptical efficiently. Allows you to think of various variables/approach to things. Newtonian model: there are reasons, too complicated, that the possibility is random. Coin flips include a lawful notion but the number of variables cause it to be random. Need to know the generalization with statistics within experiments and differences. Whether its by chance or there is a systematic may to understand events. Humans are not well adapting to perceiving patterns, not creating them. Seeing patterns can be perceived when there isn"t any. Can overlook patterns that happen believing that they are false. Looking for confirming evidence is not a good way to create a hypothesis.
