SOCIOL 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Null Hypothesis, Statistical Significance, Cognitive Dissonance
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We think hume is wrong that we must live with near explination rather than justification. Vision has the illusion of being a simple report of what surrounds us in the world. Perceptual processing system has to do a lot of work to translate what we see to our minds. This is partially why we are subject to systematic mistakes about how vision works and how we use it to justify our beliefs. Vision is not the only faculty that works this waythere is systematic deception for other faculties as well. We can"t think back and see the construction of vision and memory, it simply arrives to us. We think that memory changes with time by losing detail. We expect our memory to consists of what we actually experienced along with the details we lossed. But in actuality, we add in false details that didn"t happen in all.
