PSYCH 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Statistical Significance, Confirmation Bias, Dependent And Independent Variables
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Confirmation bias: hard to perceive new information. Etryn entry ii: grabe barge. Humans cannot rely on intuition and common sense. Chaotic systems cannot be predicted, but we try figuring it out anyway our brain fills and creates a lot of our reality we believe that randomness is real and important. **hindsight bias, overconfidence, and our tendency to perceive patterns in random events often lead us to overestimate our intuition, but scientific inquiry can help us sift reality from illusion. Includes a willingness and passion to explore and understand the world without misleading or being misled. Critical thinking refers to a more careful style of forming and evaluating knowledge than simply using intuition. Games on computer and phones don"t really train the brain for outside world, cognitive training doesn"t work. Helps develop more effective and accurate ways to figure out what makes people do, think, and feel the things they do, thinking outside the.
