PSY BEH 192T Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Decision-Making, Robert Sternberg, Belief Bias
17 Dec 2016
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Confirmation bias- tend to hypotheses looking for evidence to confirm your theory rather than disconfirm it. Not controlling variables- children have is knowing that you have to control all variables except that of interest in the study. Lack of mechanisms- you want to have students make predictions but the predictions need to have mechanistic explanations. Belief bias- people have trouble with design and trouble evaluating evidence, people tend to trust evaluate evidence that is consistent with their prior beliefs. Kroner and philips - people who believed in the death penalty believed that the paragraph on it being a good deterrent, believed it was credible and those that did not like the death penalty did not. Measurements is imprecise most of the time (measure height of plant 3 times, not once( Law of large numbers: need a large enough sample because a small sample doesn"t represent a population.
