PSYC 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Hindsight Bias, Naturalistic Observation, Psychological Science

• School: Binghamton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 111
• Professor: Maggie Parker (Ma)

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Psychology 1b: dr. prima has been hired to assess job satisfaction and worker productivity. Dr. prima is most likely a(n) __ psychologist. Psychiatrists; clinical psychologists: are medical doctors who can provide medical treatment and psychological therapy. Not medical doctors, but they can assess and treat mental, behavioral, and emotional disorders. Research strategies: how psychologist ask and answer questions. Humans cannot rely solely on intuition and common sense. Three phenomena illustrate this: hindsight bias, tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that we could have predicted it. Judgemental overconfidence: people tend to think they know more than they do, tendency to perceive patterns in random events (to make sense of their world, people trust their intuition more than they should bc its flawed. Explore and understand without being misled: critical thinking - style of forming and evaluating knowledge more than intuition. How do you know: humility, mistakes are possible and willingness to be surprised.