PSY 290 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Availability Heuristic, Falsifiability, Review Article
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Chapter 1: research is a way of thinking. Producer working in a lab conducting research. Transitional research (example) in a lab, can meditation lessons improve students. Scientists are: empiricists: they test theories, tackle applied and basic problems, dig deeper, make it public, talk to the world. Theory leads to researchers to pose particular research questions to an appropriate research design, researchers formulate hypotheses, researchers them collect and analyze data which feeds back into the cycle. Good scientific theories = supported by data, falsifiable, have a parsimony, do not prove anything. Bushman"s 2002 study on the effect of catharsis on aggression is a systematic comparison that controls for potential confounds. The intuitive thinker vs. the scientific thinker mistakes are made when we base our reasoning on intuition rather than on science. Being persuaded by what easily comes to mind availability heuristic. Failing to think about what we cannot see past/present bias. Focusing on the evidence we like best conformation bias.
