Psychology 2800E Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Confirmation Bias, Availability Heuristic, Cognitive Bias

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Science (better for empirical science and controlled experiments can exclude cofounds) Use of systematic empiricism (collect data; observations are structured, so that the results reveal something about the underlying nature; driven by theory) Production of publicly verifiable knowledge (presented to the scientific community for review) Examination of empirically solvable problems (they"re testable, using currently available experimental methods, falsifiable) Hawthorne effects (just participating in an intervention, regardless of what it is, improves outcome) (mostly in education) 76% of people who volunteer feel younger than. Does reading the safety guide in an airplane help you their age survive a crash? o. Ignoring the people who got the treatment and. Availability heuristic didn"t improve; and ignore the people who didn"t get the treatment but did improve. Things that come easily to mind guide out thinking. Seek out confirming evidence and rely on that. Confirmations bias o o o o o evidence in drawing conclusions.

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