PSY 1010 Lecture Notes - Thomas Kuhn, Alien Abduction, Philip E. Tetlock
6 Sep 2013
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Science must combine logic with research and experimentation. How predictable is human behavior: milgram study (they would give people the option to shock the client, and they recorded who actually did that or not. Must also include common sense and observation, while also recognizing the inherent limitations of both. Limits of observation: - the senses can be easily fooled (illusionist, magician). Generalization (inductive logic) using past experiences to assume that something will be true. Experience biases our observation and also limits how we perceive our results. Science: is as much a way of thinking, even an attitude, as it is a process. Critical thinking: the cognitive skills required to generate, test, revise theories (the way of viewing the world that provides some sort of answer). Attitudes related to science: question authority (avoids being taken advantage of, open skepticism (okay with other options, humility, intellectual honesty, curiosity, humility.
