PSYC 1000U Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Operational Definition, Scientific Method, Jean Piaget
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Chapter one thinking critically with psychological science. What is the need for psychological science: why are the answers that flow from the scientific approach more reliable than those based on intuition and common sense, some people think that psychology documents what people already know. Some say people get paid thousands to prove in a fancy matter what their grandmother already knew: a long list of pop psychology books actually encourage us towards. Intuitive healing : to the present day psychological science documents a vast intuitive mind, our thinking, memory, and attitudes operate on two levels which are. Unconscious: though intuition is important, we often underestimate its threats, there are limits of intuition. Hindsight bias: finding that something has happened makes it seem inevitable, a tendency we call hindsight bias. Also known as a i knew it all along phenomenon. It is said that this phenomenon is easy to demonstrate: good ideas are like inventions.