PSY 311 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: White Noise, Representativeness Heuristic, Stomach Cancer
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Stanovich how to think straight about psychology. The importance of converging evidence: multiple pieces of smaller evidence is stronger than one large piece of evidence (in support, no such thing as the definitive or perfect study. You usually need dozens for obvious confounds and then some after. Some psychologists don"t know how to contain excitement, to keep it neutral and media isn"t trained to answer the right questions. If you play mozart while a baby is in the womb, the baby will be smarter. Original using college students and mozart, popular music, and white noise: took a test after about spatial/mathematical, mozart did slightly better. Media started wild fire of false information that went from the original experiment to babies: problems: not smarter across the board only spatial, only slightly better, effect is short lived, has not been replicated. Various things that cause human behaviors: most are caused by multiple behaviors. Cip 9/15 2: *psychology is a probabilistic science.
