Psychology 2070A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Canadian Psychological Association, University Of Western Ontario, Murder Of Kitty Genovese
4 Feb 2017
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Hindsight bias: whereby people exaggerate how much they could have predicted the outcome after knowing that it occurred. Eg. students of uwo read events of ww1. In one condition participants were tolf that the soldier managed to convince others in the military to accept his plan and the village was saved. They felt that it was obvious all along. The opposite finding of the experiment might seem just as obvious as the results that were actually obtained. Theory: an organized set of principles that can be used to explain observed phenomena. Hypothesis: testable statement or idea about the relationship between two or more variables. After reading other peoples work, a researcher might believe that he or she has a better way of explaining peoples behavior. Leon festinger was dissatisfied with the ability of a major theory of behaviorism, to explain why people change attitudes. He formulated a new approach cognitive dissonance theory.
