PSY 301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Optical Illusion, Scale Model, Nystagmus
Document Summary
Our beliefs and their bases (why we cannot trust our brain: optical illusion, our thought processes. Patterns - lots of agreements on some: widespread disagreements and other. Population uncertainty but some individual certainty: some consensus uncertainty, similar across years, problems in our thought promise are evidence. The ill- informed: some inherent flaws in our thought processes are evidence, some outright mistakes, resolve the differences and errors. 3 types of statement: mathematical, opinion, value judgement, fact-based, statement of nature. Lack of census for fact-based statement is fixable. 5 parts: goal, models, data, evidence, observation from the nature, evaluation (conclusion, revision, rejecting a model and coming up with a new one. Properties and consequences: evidence is always the standard for judging the model, science is not an opinion poll, issues are not decided by majority, science does not consider models or explanations as validity unless they have supported evidence.
