PSY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Buzzer Beater, Hindsight Bias, Slot Machine
30 Aug 2018
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The need for psychological science: hindsight bias, finding out something happens makes it inevitable, ex. buzzer beater win @ basketball game and then saying i knew we were gonna win , i knew it all along , 2. Overconfidence error: confidence and accuracy aren"t relate, ex. Im sure im correct : the coincidence error, mistakenly perceiving order in random events, ex. The dice must be fixed because you rolled three 6"s in a row , lottery, slot machine. The scientific method is the process of testing our ideas by: Setting up situations that test our ideas. All adhd symptoms are a reaction to eating too much sugar . If a kid gets sugar, the kid will act more . Replicating research means trying it again using the same operational definitions of the concepts and procedures. Could introduce a small change in the study. Descriptive research- the systematic, objective observation of. Examining one individual or group in depth.
