PSY-B - Psychology PSY-B 365 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Twin Study, Heritability, Scatter Plot
17 Jan 2017
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This explains how two people can look at the same situation or data and draw radically. Critical thinking- a skeptical attitude that encourages us to evaluate evidence and scrutinize conclusions. It involves a questioning approach to all information and arguments. Asking questions makes you more informed, and ensures you have the correct answers. To get a greater understanding of healthy behavior, we draw on the available information to formulate cause-and-effect relationships about our own and other people"s behavior. It is dangerous to base our explanations on hearsay, conjecture, anecdotal evidence, or unverified sources of information. Belief bias a form of faulty reasoning in which our expectations prevent us from seeing alternative explanations for our observations. different conclusions. Can be divided into two categories; descriptive and experimental. Also borrow methods from the field of epidemiology- the scientific study of the frequency, distributions, and cause of a particular disease or other health outcome in a population.
