PSYCH 135 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Pantyhose, Randomness
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Self-serving bias: we are motivated to see ourselves better than we actually are (cid:498)) knew it all along(cid:499) or (indsight bias: ex. Birds of a feather flock together and opposites attract because of different contexts. Randomness: we are not good at being random. Can think of all of the reasons why you are right. You can find examples to make some things make sense (cid:523)ex. Lottery number exercise(cid:524) )t doesn"t feel good to pull out the same number three times in a row. Illusion of control bias: people often believe they are in control when they are not (ex. Flipping coin exercise) you have no control whether you get heads or tails every time. The observational method (or survey research) simply documents the rate or level of behavior. A representative group is obtained by taking a random sample accurate, there might have been biases.
