PSYC 303 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Confirmation Bias, Bias Blind Spot, Availability Heuristic
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Why the producer role is important: coursework in psychology, graduate school, working in a research lab. Why the consumer role is important: reading research based publications, psychology courses. Scaring kids by showing them what prison is like should keep them from committing crimes: there was no evidence that it was actually improving behavior. Scientists talk to the world - journals to journalism. Empiricism - base believes on empirical research conclusiveness or senses form instruments. Data theory cycle: theory - describes how variables are related to one another, leads to questions, hypothesis - specific prediction about the outcome of a study, data. Research design is related to this: do the observations support the hypothesis. Falsifiable: have parsimony - we want a simplest explanation, don"t prove anything (weight of evidence) Journals are typically published monthly: articles are peer reviewed and written by qualified contributors, audience is scientists and students.
