PSYC 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Hindsight Bias, Psychological Science, Scale-Invariant Feature Transform

• School: Binghamton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 111
• Professor: Lanora Duell

Document Summary

Psychology: the study of behavior and the mind. Researchers have found that people with high self-confidence are more susceptible to flattery than those with low self confidence o. Those with high self-confidence believe more in their abilities, and therefore accept the positive feedback. The need for psychological science: humans cannot rely solely on intuition and common sense o. Tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that we could have predicted it. People tend to think they know more than they do. People perceive patterns to make sense of their world. Even in random, unrelated data, people often find order because random sequences often do not look random. Hindsight bias, overconfidence, and our tendency to perceive patterns in random events often lead us to overestimate our intuition. But scientific inquiry can help us sift reality from illusion. Includes a passion to explore and understand the world without misleading or being misled.